Planning
for the MacLehose Medical Rehabilitation Centre was started in
1979 by the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation in response to
the Government's Rehabilitation Programme Development Plan which
outlined the need for provision of more resident rehabilitation
centres.
The Centre, named
after Sir Murray MacLehose, the then Governor of Hong Kong, was
officially opened on 7 December 1984. It was the first and only
specialised institution for the medical rehabilitation of the
physically disabled on Hong Kong Island.
The management of
the Centre was transferred to the Hospital Authority on 1 December
1991.
