Convocation Newsletter, Summer 2018

35 Queen Mary Hospital, The HKU Health System’s flagship teaching hospital, was ranked top in the region by Asclepius Healthcare, in the “2017 Best 50 Hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” results. Established in 1937, the hospital has strived for 81 years to provide the highest quality of patient- centred service to the people of Hong Kong. Queen Mary Hospital scored 948.53 in the ranking, while the other three HKU teaching hospitals also performed well: Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital (5 th place, 782.81 points), Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital (26 th place, 581.18 points), and The University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Hospital (45 th place, 486.01 points). “It is very satisfying for all of us in the Faculty to see Queen Mary Hospital ranked the best hospital in the region and our other three affiliated teaching hospitals scoring so well”, said Professor Gabriel Leung 梁卓偉 (MD 2003), HKU’s Dean of Medicine. “We have worked tirelessly to create a cohesive HKU Health System with high standards across all of our hospitals. This has enabled us to provide our patients with quality medical care and effectively implement our teaching and research programmes so we can train new generations of healthcare professionals in best practices, and advance medical knowledge”. Queen Mary Leads the Way 4 HKU teaching hospitals rank among 50 best in the region The healthcare consultant Asclepius Healthcare analysed data from four categories: medical expertise, resources, hospital operation and academic impact. Information was collected from comprehensive hospitals and traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area. Asclepius also announced the “2017 Best 100 Hospitals in the Chinese Community”, in which Queen Mary Hospital ranked 3 rd (915.59 points) and Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital ranked 21 st (791.30 points). Peking Union Medical College Hospital ranked 1st (941.12 points) and West China Hospital, Sichuan University ranked 2 nd (933.27 points). www.med.hku.hk “Hong Kong’s deepening connections with the Greater Bay Area is ushering in an era of enormous opportunity to work with more medical organisations in profound ways that will bring greater well-being and health to many people”. Professor Gabriel Leung Dean of Medicine CONVOCATION NEWSLETTER