St. Teresa's Hospital

St. Teresa's Hospital is the largest nonprofit Roman Catholic hospital in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located on 327 Prince Edward Road West.^[1]

St. Teresa's Hospital
Sisters of Charity of St. Paul
St. Teresa's Hospital in November 2007
Geography
Location	327 Prince Edward Road West, Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′35″N 114°11′05″E / 22.32647°N 114.18462°E / 22.32647; 114.18462
Organisation
Care system	Private (Catholic)
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	District General
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	1,050
History
Opened	1940; 84 years ago (1940)
Links
Website	www.sth.org.hk
Lists	Hospitals in Hong Kong

St. Teresa's Hospital
Traditional Chinese	聖德肋撒醫院
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Sing dāk lahk saat yī yuhn Jyutping Sing3 dak1 lak6 saat3 ji1 jyun6

History

St Paul's Hospital in Causeway Bay had grown out of the caring activities undertaken by the Sisters of the Roman Catholic Christian order St. Paul de Chartres for the poor and underprivileged of the Wan Chai and Happy Valley areas of Hong Kong Island, which commenced in the mid-19th century after the order had first established itself in the then British colony.

To provide geographically closer services for the people of Kowloon on the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour, the Pauline Sisters founded St Teresa's Hospital in 1940. It is sometimes known locally as the "French Hospital", or "Kowloon French Hospital" to distinguish it from St. Paul's Hospital in Hong Kong Island, which is also known colloquially as the "French Hospital". The location of the hospital was next to the demolished Ma Tau Wai,^[2] an indigenous village that the modern-day area was named after.^[α]

St Teresa's has 1,050 beds and offers a very wide range of specialisations. The hospital is a member of Hong Kong Private Hospitals Association.

St Teresa's Hospital is surveyed and accredited bi-annually by QHA Trent Accreditation of the United Kingdom, a major international healthcare accreditation group.

School of Nursing

From 1969 to 2002, Saint Teresa's had a School of Nursing for Pupil Nurses (General Nurse). The school reopened in 2005 with a two-year programme, accredited by the Hong Kong Nursing Council, to train Enrolled Nurses on a practical and theoretical level. After completing the training, graduates are eligible for enrollment with the Hong Kong Nursing Council as a general Enrolled Nurse (Licensed practical nurse).^[4]

See also

• List of hospitals in Hong Kong
• International healthcare accreditation

Footnotes

1. The official address of the hospital did not mention Ma Tau Wai or that the hospital is located within Kowloon City District.^[3][1]

References

1. "Contact Us". Hong Kong: St. Teresa's Hospital. Retrieved 23 January 2021. Address: St. Teresa's Hospital 327 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
2. 蕭險峰; 岑智明; 劉國偉 (15 April 2016). 九龍城「上帝古廟」原址考證 (PDF). Fieldwork and Documents: South China Research Resource Station Newsletter (in Chinese (Hong Kong)) (83): 13. ISSN 1990-9020.
3. "District Council Constituency Boundaries - Kowloon City District" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission. February 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
4. . Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2009.

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Teresa's Hospital, Hong Kong.

• "St Teresa's Hospital, Hong Kong - official homepage" (in Chinese and English).
• "Catholic.org information web site for Hong Kong". Archived from the original on 24 July 2001.
• "Information about the Sisters of St Paul de Chartres (Hong Kong)".