[1] St Paul's Hospital in Causeway Bay had grown out of the caring activities undertaken by the Sisters of the Roman Catholic Christian order St. Paul de Chartres for the poor and underprivileged of the Wan Chai and Happy Valley areas of Hong Kong Island, which commenced in the mid-19th century after the order had first established itself in the then British colony.

To provide geographically closer services for the people of Kowloon on the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour, the Pauline Sisters founded St Teresa's Hospital in 1940.

The location of the hospital was next to the demolished Ma Tau Wai,[2] an indigenous village that the modern-day area was named after.

[α] St Teresa's has 1,050 beds and offers a very wide range of specialisations.

The school reopened in 2005 with a two-year programme, accredited by the Hong Kong Nursing Council, to train Enrolled Nurses on a practical and theoretical level.