Caritas Medical Centre

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 Hospital Background  Scope of Services
 Hotlines  Visiting Hours  Location  

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Hospital Background

Founded by Caritas-Hong Kong in 1964, Caritas Medical Centre is an acute general hospital with around 1,000 beds situated in Shamshuipo. It provides a full range of acute and rehabilitation care, ambulatory and community medical services, including a 24-hour accident and emergency service, general outpatient service, and inpatient and outpatient specialist services in a one-stop setting - so called single episode care. The hospital maintains close ties with its parent organization, Caritas-Hong Kong, and a strong Catholic culture under the motto "Love in the Service of Hope".

The hospital has well-developed supporting services, including Pathology, Radiology, Anaesthesiology and Allied Health services. Other ambulatory and outreach community services include Geriatric Day Hospital and Community Geriatric Assessment Team, Community Nursing service, and Palliative Home Care service. The services provided reflect the needs of the population served - ageing, low income, new immigrants.

Caritas Medical Centre is the referral centre of the Kowloon West Cluster of the Hospital Authority in Eye service serving the entire Kowloon west region. The Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Service for Kowloon West Cluster is also based at Caritas Medical Centre. The Palliative Care Unit (inpatient and home care team) serves patients referred from hospitals of the Kowloon West Cluster. The hospital runs the largest Developmental Disabilities Unit (Project Sunshine) for the entire territory of Hong Kong, to provide severely mentally-handicapped patients under the age of 16 with treatment, training and development in a home-like setting.

To meet the ever increasing demand and expectation in medical services, Caritas Medical Centre has started a major re-development project which has its phase I completed in 2002 - a 14-storey new block, Wai Shun Block, for accommodating all acute services. Planning for re-development of the rest of the facilities of the hospital (phase II - ambulatory, rehabilitation and supporting services) has already started, with completion date planned in 2013.

Scope of Services

In-patient Service   24-hour Accident and Emergency Service   Family Medicine / Primary Health Care Service(s) - on site and community based   Specialist Out-patient Service   Allied Health Services   Outreach Community Services
Specialties :
Coronary Care   Dental and Oro-maxillofacial Surgery   Ear Nose Throat   Gynaecology   Intensive Care   Medicine & Geriatrics (acute and rehabilitation)   Ophthalmology   Orthopaedics & Traumatology (acute and rehabilitation)   Paediatrics and Adolescence Medicine   Surgery   Developmental Disabilities (Paediatric)   Palliative Care   Psychiatry (on sessional basis)
Day Care and Outreach Services :
Renal Unit   Combined Endoscopy Unit   Geriatric Day Hospital   Community Geriatric Assessment Team   Community Nursing Service   Palliative Home Care
Others :
School of General Nursing   Pastoral Care   Caritas Lok Yan School for Mentally Handicapped Children   Red Cross School for Paediatric Ward Children   Volunteer services

 

Hotlines

24-hour Enquiry Hotline : 3408 5678

General Enquiry : 3408 7911

Request for Medical Record : 3408 7992

Patient Relations Officer : 3408 7079

Recruitment : 3408 7920

Visiting Hours

The following visiting hours and rules are subject to change without prior notice according to the prevailing guidelines stipulated by the Hospital Authority. Please contact the ward staff or refer to the respective notice posted within the hospital where necessary.
Patients / Wards	Visiting Hours
Patients in isolation	No visiting
Emergency Medicine Ward (Wai Shun 2B)	6:00pm ¡V 8:00pm
Other Acute Wards	6:00pm ¡V 8:00pm
Rehabilitation Wards	11:30am ¡V 1:30pm 6:00pm ¡V 8:00pm
Intensive Care Unit, High Dependency Unit, Cardiac Care Unit	6:00pm ¡V 8:00pm
Developmental Disabilities Unit	12:00noon ¡V 2:00pm 6:00pm ¡V 8:00pm

Notes to Visitors
	No Visiting for patients in isolation.
	For each patient, no more than two visitors at any one time.
	Please perform temperature check before visit and monitor your health situation. Do not visit patients when you are unwell.
	Children under the age of 12, pregnant women and people with fever or influenza symptom are discouraged from visiting.
	Visitors may be required to provide personal information for further follow-up.
	Please wear a self-provided surgical mask if you have respiratory infection symptoms. You may also be required to put on a mask in the hospital when Emergency Response Level of the Hong Kong Government¡¦s Preparedness Plan for Influenza Pandemic has been activated. Please refer to the notice posted in the hospital for details.
	Please wash your hands thoroughly before and after visits.
	With effect from 1 August 2009, owing to the construction works of the Redevelopment Project, the hospital has no parking facilities for visitors until further notice.