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  Kwong Wah Hospital at AllExperts
Kwong Wah Hospital () is a major hospital in South Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The hospital began in 1911 as a Chinese medicine hospital operated by a local charity body.
After the hospital merged with Tung Wah Hospital and Tung Wah Eastern Hospital to form the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Kwong Wah gradually became a full scale hospital in both Chinese and Western medicine.
en.allexperts.com /e/k/kw/kwong_wah_hospital.htm   (271 words)

  
 21st Century's Science & Technology Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canossa Hospital (Caritas) - Founded in 1929 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, the hospital's mission is to provide quality holistic healthcare to the community in the spirit of Christ.
Kwong Wah Hospital - Kwong Wah Hospital was established by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Hospital in 1911 as the first hospital on the Kowloon peninsula.
Prince of Wales Hospital - Located in the city centre of Shatin, it is an acute general hospital as well as the teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
www.21stcentury.co.uk /directory/directory.asp?ID=Regional/Asia/Hong_Kong/Health/Hospitals   (888 words)

  
  Hong Kong: Health: Hospitals, Chinese Hospitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canossa Hospital (Caritas) Founded in 1929 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, the hospital's mission is to provide quality holistic healthcare to the community in the spirit of Christ.
Kwong Wah Hospital Kwong Wah Hospital was established by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Hospital in 1911 as the first hospital on the Kowloon peninsula.
Prince of Wales Hospital Located in the city centre of Shatin, it is an acute general hospital as well as the teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
hong_kong.mousemagnet.com /hospitals.php   (564 words)

  
 Tung Wah Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kwong Fook I-tsz was built in 1851 and was the predecessor of Tung Wah Hospital.
Kwong Wah I-tsz was not a hospital and the patients sent there did not receive proper medical care.
One major contribution of the Tung Wah Hospital to the eradication of the smallpox was vaccination.
hkuhist2.hku.hk /studentprojects/firstyear/smallpoxproj/3/tung.html   (526 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Progress of the SARS outbreak
He was admitted to the Hong Kong Kwong Wah Hospital and died on March 4.
After the disease was transmitted to a number of hospital workers there, he was returned to Hong Kong where he died on March 14.
On March 20, WHO reported that several hospitals in Vietnam and Hong Kong were operating with half the usual staff, because many workers stayed home out of fear of getting infected.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Progress-of-the-SARS-outbreak   (4915 words)

  
 Kwong Wah Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Tung Wah Group of Hospitals - Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The foundation of Tung Wah Hospital was laid in 1870.
In 1911 and 1929, Kwong Wah Hospital and Tung Wah Eastern Hospital were established respectively.
The 3 hospitals were amalgamated into a single entity in 1931 under the management of a Board of Directors, and the name "Tung Wah Group of Hospitals" was adopted since then.
www.tungwah.org.hk /services/twservicee.html   (276 words)

  
 Electronic Music News, MP3s, Community, Collaboration and Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canossa Hospital (Caritas) - - Founded in 1929 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, the hospital's mission is to provide quality holistic healthcare to the community in the spirit of Christ.
Kwong Wah Hospital - - Kwong Wah Hospital was established by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Hospital in 1911 as the first hospital on the Kowloon peninsula.
Prince of Wales Hospital - - Located in the city centre of Shatin, it is an acute general hospital as well as the teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
www.internetdj.com /search/search.php?browse=/Regional/Asia/Hong_Kong/Health/Hospitals   (931 words)

  
 Kwong Wah Information
Kwong Wah (Traditional Chinese: 江華, born 19 November, 1962) is a Hong Kong television star currently working for TVB.
The show gained extremely high ratings and Kwong Wah was acclaimed for his realistic performance as the emperor who travelled through time to 21st century Hong Kong.
Kwong is also known for his resemblance to Andy Lau.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kwong_Wah   (231 words)

  
 Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine - News
But because he was a professor from a Guangzhou hospital where there was known outbreak of an unknown organism, staff in Kwong Wah Hospital did take precautions, thus avoiding a more massive outbreak among healthcare workers as the one we saw in Prince of Wales Hospital.
For the Prince of Wales Hospital, the magnitude of the problem was mainly the result of the massive dose of virus transmission that must have occurred early on.
Because we have re-organized our 44 hospitals into clusters this year, it is now much easier to command and control through the seven Cluster Chief Executives through daily morning round up meetings, who would then disseminate information and orders down Hospital Chief Executives of their cluster hospitals and to individual departments.
www.medeserv.com.au /racp/afphm/news/hongkong.htm   (2209 words)

  
 Hospitals Health Hong Kong Asia Regional
Hospitals' health tied to county economyTrenton Times, NJ - 10 hours agoThat is precisely why major hospitals such as The Medical Center at Princeton and Capital Health System are relocating, according to their leaders;...
Hospitals recruit overseasCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 4 hours agoArea hospitals are being forced by a shortage of nurses and other health-care workers to become creative when recruiting workers, said Teresa Daniels,...
The name "Kwong Wah" stands for Kwang-tung Chinese for whom the hospital was to serve.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/Hong_Kong/Health/Hospitals   (834 words)

  
 Asia, Hong Kong: Hospitals
Founded in 1929 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, the hospital's mission is to provide quality holistic healthcare to the community in the spirit of Christ.
Kwong Wah Hospital was established by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Hospital in 1911 as the first hospital on the Kowloon peninsula.
The hospital's mission is to excel in the provision of holistic patient-centred quality health care through loving, dedicated and cohesive team effort.
www.health-directory.info /dir/Regional/Asia/Hong_Kong/Health/Hospitals/index.cgi   (1063 words)

  
 AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
Founded in 1929 by the Canossian Daughters of Charity, the hospital's mission is to provide quality holistic healthcare to the community in the spirit of Christ.
The hospital's mission is to excel in the provision of holistic patient-centred quality health care through loving, dedicated and cohesive team effort.
Kwong Wah Hospital was established by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Hospital in 1911 as the first hospital on the Kowloon peninsula.
dailynews.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Regional/Asia/Hong_Kong/Health/Hospitals   (764 words)

  
 Special.scmp.com - South China morning Post online brings you special reports on major events in Hong Kong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Air conditioners are being used to heat water at Kwong Wah Hospital as part of a pledge to improve the environment.
The 90-year-old public hospital has become the first local medical facility to install a $5 million heat pump that uses heat emitted from air conditioners to boil water.
Hospital chief executive Dr Luk Che-chung said the move could also help reduce air pollution in Yau Ma Tei.
special.scmp.com /pollutionwatch/news/ZZZEO3DSNJC.html   (282 words)

  
 Kwong Wah Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The hospital operates a 24-hour Accident and Emergency service, and provides a full range of acute care services, mainly to the population of the West Kowloon and Wong Tai Sin areas.
KWH is the major acute hospital in the HA's Kowloon West Hospital Cluster which also comprises TWGHs Wong Tai Sin Hospital and Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital.
The hospital is able to provide a better ambulatory services to the community through this modern new building.
www.ha.org.hk /hesd/nsapi/?MIval=ha_view_content&c_id=100153   (583 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: SARS Signals Missed in Hong Kong
Though authorities were alerted when Liu entered Kwong Wah Hospital, they failed to take the alert seriously, hospital workers charge, and it would take an outbreak at another hospital more than two weeks later to spur them to concrete action.
It was the secretary to the hospital president, Zhan Wenhua.
The hospital staff did not know it at the time, but a patient in their midst, the young airport worker who had visited a friend at the Metropole, was infected.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A12961-2003May19?language=printer   (2456 words)

  
 McKinnon v. Kwong Wah Restaurant
McKinnon testified that one of the restaurant owners tried to force her to sign a release exempting the Kwong Wah from liability if she was injured on the job, and that the Kwong Wah cut back her working hours in retaliation for her refusal to sign the release.
At the conclusion of the testimony in the instant case, the court asserted that it was "persuaded" that the plaintiffs suffered emotionally as a result of persistent and extremely offensive sexual harassment at Kwong Wah.
She commenced employment at the Kwong Wah at the age of twenty.
www.law.emory.edu /1circuit/may96/95-1597.01a.html   (4598 words)

  
 Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hospitals providing both outpatient and inpatient obstetric services in Hong Kong can apply to the College to be accredited if the obstetric department has reached a standard stipulated by the College.
The hospital or department can contact College Secretariat to obtain an application form, which requires information about the hospital, including the clinical workload, the key obstetric equipment and facilities, the manpower and relevant supporting services.
Accredited hospital will be issued a bilingual certificate, which is valid for five years.
www.hkcog.org.hk /acobs.htm   (148 words)

  
 Medical and Health Services of Tung Wah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The first hospital of TWGHs - Tung Wah Hospital, had been providing CM inpatient and outpatient services since its establishment.
This marked the beginning of Tung Wah Hospital as a medical institution offering both CM and Western medicine services.
Our second hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital, which was established in 1911 at Kowloon and the third hospital established in 1929, the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital at Causeway Bay, also offered both Chinese and western medicine.
www.tungwah.org.hk /services/medical/cms-e.html   (364 words)

  
 Department of Health (Content Page) - News Bulletin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Most of the patients currently in hospital are showing positive responses to the new treatment protocol.
Seven patients died in hospitals last night and this morning, bring to 47 the total number of deaths relating to atypical pneumonia.
A 69-year-old female and a 74-year-old male with a history of chronic disease died in Prince of Wales Hospital.
info.gov.hk /dh/new/2003/03-04-14e.htm   (276 words)

  
 The Standard - Pig disease infects its 8th HK victim - Metro Section
The CHP and the Department of Health received a report that an unnamed 78-year-old woman was diagnosed with the virulent streptococcus suis disease when she was admitted to Kwong Wah Hospital in Mong Kok on August 8.
The woman came down with the infection on August 3 and was admitted to the hospital with a fever and pain in her right hip, doctors said.
CHP staff were interviewing the patient, her family and Kwong Wah hospital staff Wednesday night for further information on her condition and treatment.
www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Metro/GH11Ak08.html   (468 words)

  
 Tung Wah Museum - Historical Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tung Wah Museum has been classified as the first class historical building by the Hong Kong Antiquities Advisory Board.
In 1919, it was converted into a 2-storey building to ease the acute demand of space for hospital beds.
As the entire old complex of Kwong Wah Hospital underwent a thorough reconstruction in 1958, only this isolated Main Hall Building was reserved as a historical building.
www.tungwah.org.hk /museum/twm-1e.html   (132 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Denial the cure for Chinese government
Most of the staff in the intensive care unit at Zhongshan University's No. 2 hospital, where many patients were being treated, had themselves become infected.
On February 21, Liu Jianlun, a doctor from Zhongshan university, arrived in Hong Kong and was quickly admitted to the Kwong Wah hospital.
Over the next weeks, 77 medical staff and students were struck down at the Kwong Wah hospital: 50 hospital workers were infected in Hanoi.
www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,927392,00.html   (1193 words)

  
 Wah - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
We have the wah wah guitarist providing the soundtrack, the comperes are comedians, there is a hostess called Lady Scarlet and a host called Mr Gently who...
The score is awash with brass flourishes, trombone ‘wah wahs’, screeching sax solos and frenetic drumbeats and percussion.
Wah Seong Corp Bhd, which had a backdoor listing via Perdana Industries Bhd, is now one of the recommended stocks in the oil and gas sector.
news.daylightonline.com /2003/Wah.html   (5769 words)

  
 Varsity
"Hospital play specialists were introduced to Hong Kong in 1994 by the Playright Children's Playground Association with the help of a donation.
Hospital play specialists' work can be divided into two categories: daily routines and talks.
In Ms Kong's viewpoint, a hospital play specialist must be willing to communicate with people, particularly with children, since it is his or her duty to communicate with many people, including the young patients, their parents and the hospital staff.
www.com.cuhk.edu.hk /varsity/9903/career.htm   (690 words)

  
 CLP Group - Improve Your Business: Hospital
Hospitals rely on hot-water systems and steam-generation for both their day-to day operations and for specialised applications such as laundry and sterilisation.
Many hospitals use a conventional gas or diesel powered water and steam plants that are sometimes inefficient and produce air pollutants in the vicinity of the hospital site.
By partnering with CLP Power and converting to a total solution of advanced and efficient electric systems, hospitals can enjoy cost effective and environmental benefits that are both reliable and affordable.
www.clpgroup.com /clp/HK/CLPP/BusCust/ImpBus/Bus/Hosp/HospitalHotWaterHeatingAndSteamRaising.htm?lang=en   (151 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Kwong
Mr Tong Chee Kwong and Ms Pricilla Khiew Pei Szu were crowned Brunei's King and Queen of Hokkien Song last Saturday night at the all-Bruneian Hokkien Singing...
Enspire was founded and is led by Chay Kwong Soon, who is also co-founder of Creative Technology and chairman of Beyonics Technology, while TIF Ventures is a...
Chi Kwong Hon, 49, from Hong Kong, was the front seat passenger in the silver Honda CRV that collided with a lorry on Sunday evening.
nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Kwong.shtml   (1327 words)

  
 WHO | Update 95 - SARS: Chronology of a serial killer
– The Guangdong doctor seeks urgent care at the Kwong Wah Hospital in Hong Kong and is admitted to the intensive care unit with respiratory failure (he had previously treated patients with atypical pneumonia in Guangdong).
A resident of Singapore, she was a guest on the ninth floor of the Hotel Metropole in Hong Kong from 21 to 25 February.
Five members of her family are found to be infected and are admitted to the hospital.
www.who.int /csr/don/2003_07_04/en   (3956 words)

  
 The Young Reporter online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, according to Kwong Wah’s data, there are more than one fifth of nursing mothers in the city who don’t take showers or even change brassieres until two weeks after delivery.
In Kwong Wah’s research, mothers of low-birth-weight (less than one kg) premature babies were asked to pump their breast milk under the nurses’ supervision.
Before coming to the hospital, mothers were advised to taking a bath.
www.hkbu.edu.hk /~tyrej/37_4/37_4_n01.htm   (723 words)

  
 PuraPharm
Meanwhile, Tung Wah Group, in partnership with the School of Chinese Medicine and the School of Professional and Continuing Education of the University of Hong Kong, is also in the process of establishing Chinese Medicine Clinical and Research Centre at Tung Wah Hospital.
Subsequently, Kwong Wah Hospital, at Waterloo Road, Kowloon and Tung Wah Eastern Hospital in Causeway Bay were established in 1911 and 1929 respectively.
The three hospitals were amalgamated into a single entity in 1931 under the management of a Board of Directors, and the name "Tung Wah Group of Hospitals" was adopted since then.
www.purapharm.com /eng/about_pura/28112001e.asp.htm   (2258 words)

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