St. John Hospital (Hong Kong)

St. John Hospital
Hospital Authority
Geography
Location	Cheung Chau Hospital Road, Tung Wan, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°12′29″N 114°01′53″E / 22.2080556°N 114.0313889°ECoordinates: 22°12′29″N 114°01′53″E / 22.2080556°N 114.0313889°E
Organisation
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	Community
Network	Hong Kong East Cluster
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	87
History
Founded	November 1934
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Graded Building – Grade III
Designated	2010-01-22
Reference no.	611

St. John Hospital (Chinese: 長洲醫院) or SJH, located on Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, provides primary, emergency and community health services to the community on the island.

History

SJH was founded by the St. John Ambulance Association. The foundation stone of this Victorian-style construction was laid by the tycoon brothers Mr Aw Boon Haw and Mr Aw Boon Par in 1932. In November 1934, it was donated to the Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Association, and officially called St John Ambulance Association Haw Par Hospital after the names of the donors.^[1] In 1946, it was converted to a tuberculosis sanatorium. On 22 January 2010, it was confirmed as a Grade 3 historic building.^[2]

Facilities

As at March 2013, the hospital has 87 beds and 113 full-time equivalent staff.^[3]

The hospital provides services for about 12,000 residents of Cheung Chau.^[4] Those services include:

• 24-Hour Accident and Emergency Service
• Specialties
  • Medicine
  • Chest
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Family Planning
• Others
  • Methadone Detoxification Clinic
  • Physiotherapy
  • X-ray
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Chaplaincy
  • Dietetic
  • Courtesy Transportation for Selected Patients

References

1. "St. John Hospital" (PDF). EM Express (Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine). April 2012.
2. "Results of the Assessment of 1,444 Historic Buildings". Hong Kong: Antiquities Advisory Board. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
3. "Hospital Authority Annual Report 2012-2013" (PDF). Hospital Authority.
4. "2011 Population Census - Fact Sheet for Islands District Council Cheung Chau South" (PDF). Hong Kong: Census and Statistics Department. 11 September 2012.