It is one of the leading community teaching hospitals in Sri Lanka, affiliated with the University of Peradeniya.

[1] In addition to delivering medical care to patients, it facilitates undergraduate training programmes for the university students studying in the faculties of Medicine, Dental Sciences and Allied Health Sciences.

The hospital is situated aside the A1 highway connecting Kandy and Colombo, near the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya.

It is established and administered under the purview of the Ministry of Health Care and Nutrition, Sri Lanka.

[2] It is the second largest hospital in Central Province, Sri Lanka, second only to the National Hospital, Kandy.