Tuen Mun Hospital formally opened its Neuroscience Centre on 23 October, after developing the service in phases from 2022. The centre brings neurological care and facilities together on the second floor of the hospital’s main building.
The same-floor arrangement is intended to make it easier for teams from different specialties to assess and treat patients without moving them between floors. The centre’s six core service areas are stroke, movement disorders, epilepsy, pain management, neurovascular management and support for organ donation. Facilities include an acute-stroke ward, operating rooms and a rehabilitation centre.
Its integrated neuroscience ward has 44 beds, including four intensive-care beds. Tuen Mun Hospital deputy chief executive Dr Benny Cheng Chun-pong described it as the Hospital Authority’s first ward to combine inpatient and day services for neurological conditions.
Cheng said acute-stroke patients previously took about an hour to receive either thrombolysis or thrombectomy. In the new ward, he said, thrombolysis could take as little as 20 minutes and thrombectomy 45 minutes.
The hospital also has a system to identify potential brainstem-death cases across its wards and help arrange transfer to the centre’s intensive-care beds. If brain death is confirmed, the organ-donation team is notified under the established procedure, Cheng said.
The hospital is studying whether to add neuro-oncology and neurodegenerative services, and plans to work with Castle Peak Hospital on neuropsychiatric care across the two hospitals. The new services are expected to be introduced successively from 2027.