| Grantham Hospital | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Wong Chuk Hang Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, (China) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Medicare |
| Hospital Type | Teaching, Tertiary referral centre |
| Affiliated University | Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | No |
| Beds | 496 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Links | |
| Website | Unknown |
| See also | Hospitals in China |
Grantham Hospital (Chinese: 葛量洪醫院) is a specialist cardiothoracic hospital specialised located at Wong Chuk Hang and is part of the Hong Kong West cluster. Hong Kong Island ( is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National This article describes policy-related systems For the article on hospital networks which are sometimes referred to as health care systems see Hospital network. A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is the older of the two Medical schools in Hong Kong (the other being the Chinese University Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) This is a list of Hospitals in Mainland China. List of hospitals in Hong Kong|List of hospitals in Macau Beijing 301 Military A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for This is a list of Hospitals and other medical facilities in Hong Kong. It is a tertiary referral centre providing specialist service in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, paediatric cardiology, tuberculosis & chest medicine and cardio-pulmonary infirmary. Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of Medicine involved in surgical treatment of Diseases affecting organs inside the Thorax (the chest Cardiology (from Greek grc καρδίᾱ kardiā, "heart" and grc -λογία -logia) is the branch of Internal medicine Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of Medicine that deals with the medical care of Infants Children and Adolescents Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common In Medicine, pulmonology (aka pneumology) is the specialty that deals with Diseases of the Lungs and the Respiratory tract. In 2003 and 2004, palliative medicine and acute geriatrics service were set up respectively after Nam Long Hospital has been closed down in December 2003. Palliative care (from Latin palliare to cloak is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of Disease Symptoms Geriatrics is the branch of Medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly Nam Long Hospital was a Hospital in Hong Kong. Specializing in Cancer treatment it closed in 2003.
The hospital is founded in 1957 by the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association and renamed for Alexander Grantham, a former Governor of Hong Kong. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham, GCMG, (葛亮洪 1899&ndash1978 was a British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong. The Governor of Hong Kong ( abbreviated 港督 was the head of the Hong Kong Government, ex-officio Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral It has 496 beds and staff of 800.
The hospital is affiliated with the Medical faculty of the University of Hong Kong, providing clinical attachment opportunities for its medical students. The University's divisions of cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and paediatric cardiology have their bases here. However, it has been proposed that these acute services will be relocated to the Queen Mary Hospital (the Flagship teaching hospital of the University) in the coming future for better and more efficient use of resources. Queen Mary Hospital ( located in Pok Fu Lam on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, is the Flagship Teaching hospital of the Grantham Hospital will then become a hospital dedicated to chronic and palliative care.
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