Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)

Queen Mary Hospital
Hospital Authority
Queen Mary Hospital, viewed from Hong Kong Trail, High West
Geography
Location	102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°16′12″N 114°07′52″E / 22.27006°N 114.13115°E / 22.27006; 114.13115Coordinates: 22°16′12″N 114°07′52″E / 22.27006°N 114.13115°E / 22.27006; 114.13115
Organisation
Funding	Government hospital
Hospital type	District General, Teaching
Affiliated university	Faculty of Dentistry & Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Network	Hong Kong West Cluster
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	1,698
History
Founded	1937 (1937)
Links
Website	www.ha.org.hk/qmh/
Lists	Hospitals in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Graded Building – Grade III
Designated	22 January 2010
Reference no.	591

Queen Mary Hospital (Chinese: 瑪麗醫院), located in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong, is the flagship teaching hospital of the Faculty of Dentistry and Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. It has around 1,400 beds. It provides general medical and surgical services to the residents of Western and Southern districts and is a tertiary referral centre for the whole territory of Hong Kong and beyond.

The hospital has its foundation stone laid on 10 May 1935 by the Governor of Hong Kong, William Peel, and was officially opened on 13 April 1937 by Andrew Caldecott, the then Governor of Hong Kong. The hospital was named for Queen Mary, widow of King George V of the United Kingdom. It then replaced the Government Civil Hospital as the main accident and emergency hospital for Hong Kong Island. The hospital was greatly expanded over the years, with two major expansion projects completed in 1955 and 1983, the 2nd being designed by London based hospital architects, Llewelyn Davies.

Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (449 ft) (28 storeys), and is the third tallest in the world, behind London's Guy's Hospital and Houston's O'Quinn Medical Tower at St. Luke's Hospital.