- Mackay Memorial Hospital
Infobox Hospital
Name = Mackay Memorial Hospital
Logo Size = 100px
Location = Taipei
Country = Taiwan
Beds = 1200 (Taipei Main Hospital)
Affiliation =Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
Certification =
Speciality =
Founded = 1912
Website = http://www.mmh.org.tw|Mackay Memorial Hospital (zh-t|t=馬偕紀念醫院), established on
December 26 ,1912 , is a private Christian hospital located in down-town Taipei. The hospital is mostly associated with the Revd DrGeorge Leslie Mackay DD, the first modern missionary to northern Taiwan. Thehospital is deeply rooted in thePresbyterian cause and is under the spiritual guidance of thePresbyterian Church in Taiwan . Currently, the hospital administration is preparing for the launch of the new Mackay Memorial Medical College.The original "Mackay Hospital" had been built by Dr. George Mackay in
Tamsui in 1880, in memory of a certain Captain MacKay, whose widow donated the funds (Geo. L. Mackay, "From Far Formosa", p. 316). [http://books.google.com/books?id=2KyT4r9th0cC&pg=RA1-PA316&lpg=RA1-PA316&dq=mackay+hospital+memory&source=web&ots=aIoTphemGY&sig=0MGIdd3tMiL1tdBf7huE2DrYwgg&hl=en] It was temporarily closed in 1901 at the death of Dr. Mackay. [http://www.mmh.org.tw/intro/intro3.asp] In recent years, Mackay has been promoted and celebrated as part of the rise of Taiwanese nativism and the associated state and civil projects of emphasizing a Taiwanese identity and Taiwan-centred histories.MacKay Hospital was reopened in 1905, and in 1912 it was relocated from Tamsui to
Taipei and renamed "Mackay Memorial Hospital". [http://www.mmh.org.tw/intro/intro3-1.asp] The hospital logo, however, still bears the date of the original foundation, 1880.External links
* [http://www.mmh.org.tw/ Mackay Memorial Hospital]
*Tamsui's [http://www.tshs.tpc.gov.tw/fore/en2-1-2.asp Huwei MacKay Hospital]
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