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Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres is the founder and operator of St. Paul's Hospital. The history of organization could date back to 1696. Over the centuries, they had experienced many wars, even had been forced to disband during the French Revolution in the 1790s.

Sisters arrived in Hong Kong in 1848 and established the "Asile de la Sainte Enfance" in Wan Chai, taking care of the abandoned baby girls. From an orphanage, it expanded to a school and home for aged women. In 1898, they opened a hospital in “Asile de la Sainte Enfance” to provide medical service for the needy. As the demand continuously grew, the Sisters built the “Le Calvaire” at Happy Valley in 1908 to extend their service. In 1916, the Sisters gradually moved their hospital to Causeway Bay, and formally renamed as St. Paul’s Hospital in 1918. Sisters also built new convent church, school and nurses quarters. However, St. Paul's Convent Church, built in 1928, had been confirmed as Grade 1 Historic Building by Antiquities and Monuments Office since September 2011.

As the demand continuously grew and technology improved, St. Paul's Hospital keep introducing new medical equipments and technique included the "Norte Dame Pavilion" (maternity wing, 1948), 7-storey new building (replacing the "Norte Dame Pavilion", 1976), the first Computed Axial Tomography (CAT or CT) machine in Hong Kong (1977), the first superconductive type Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine in Hong Kong (1989), the Cardiac Catheterization Centre (1995), the Endoscopy Unit (1998), etc.

St. Paul's Hospital confirmed its expansion in 2000s, establishing two 20-storey new building, where the new Block A had been started services since December 2009. Block B will start services soon where construction was already completed in 2014.