Heartlands Hospital

Heartlands Hospital is an acute general hospital in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England. It is managed by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Heartlands Hospital
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Heartlands Hospital
Location within West Midlands
Geography
LocationBordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Coordinates52.4788°N 1.8295°W / 52.4788; -1.8295
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeDistrict General
Services
Emergency departmentYes
History
Opened1895
Links
Websitewww.uhb.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895.[1][2] Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901.[2] Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904.[2] It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.[2]

After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953.[2] It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.[1] The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978.[3] It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.[4]

Development

A new Ambulatory Care and Diagnostics Centre is to be built on the site, due to open in 2022. It will have 120 consultation rooms, 26 specialist audiology and ear nose and throat rooms, ultrasound and X-ray rooms, and CT scan and MRI scanning facilities in a new 18,000 sq metre four-storey building.[5]

References
  1. "Ward Block 10, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, West Midlands: Historic Building Record". Archaeology Data Service. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  2. "Little Bromwich Hospital". British Empire. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  3. "City hospitals have a long and proud history". Birmingham Mail. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  4. "The East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1993". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  5. "Kier appointed to deliver £97.1m Heartlands Hospital project". Building Better Healthcare. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
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