 With a height of 148.5 metres (487 feet), it was the second-highest hospital building in the world, 15 centimetres shorter than Guy's Hospital in London, UK.The Hospital, when formed in 1922 and known then as The Yeung Wo Nursing Home, was organized by a leading group of Chinese medical practitioners and prominent residents of Hong Kong.The aim was to provide hospital facilities for the Chinese community and to provide accessible accommodation for the patients to be cared for by their own doctors.