Kwai Chung Hospital

Hospital in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

Kwai Chung Hospital

Hospital Authority

Geography
Location| 3-15 Kwai Chung Hospital Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
Coordinates| 22°20′30″N 114°08′04″E﻿ / ﻿22.34163°N 114.13448°E﻿ / 22.34163; 114.13448
Organisation
Funding| Public hospital
Type| Specialist
Affiliated university| University of Hong Kong, Open University of Hong Kong, Chinese University Hong Kong
Network| Kowloon West Cluster
Services
Emergency department| No, Accident and Emergency at Princess Margaret Hospital
Beds| 920
Speciality| Psychiatry
Helipad| No
History
Opened| 15 October 1981; 43 years ago (1981-10-15)
Links
Website| www.ha.org.hk/kch
Lists| Hospitals in Hong Kong
Kwai Chung Hospital

Traditional Chinese| 葵涌醫院
| Transcriptions

Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Kwàih chūng yī yún
Jyutping| Kwai4 cung1 ji1 jyun2

Kwai Chung Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, located near Princess Margaret Hospital. Officially opened on 15 October 1981, the hospital currently provides 920 psychiatric beds, serving the population of Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan, Tung Chung, North Lantau and part of Kowloon.[1]

Apart from in-patient psychiatric services for adult psychiatric patients, it also develops psychiatric specialty services which include Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Psychogeriatric Services, Community Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison Services, Substance Abuse Assessment Unit and Psychiatric Unit for Learning Disabilities.

The hospital also provides out-patient department and day hospital services for psychiatric patients at West Kowloon Psychiatric Centre and East Kowloon Psychiatric Centre.

The hospital is reachable by Lai King Hill Road.

## History

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Kwai Chung Hospital began its operations in November 1980 and was officially opened on 15 October 1981 by the Hong Kong Governor, Murray MacLehose.[2]

## References

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1. ^ "Hospital Introduction". Hong Kong: Kwai Chung Hospital. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
2. ^ "'Milestone in field of mental health'". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 16 October 1981. p. 15.

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