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The facility was established as an isolation hospital for treating contagious diseases known as Heathcote Hospital in 1887. [1] [2] [3] A nurses' home was built 1937. [1] The hospital started to focus specifically on tuberculosis cases in 1952 and was converted for use as a geriatric hospital in 1959. [1]
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington [note 1] (/ ˈ l ɛ m ɪ ŋ t ən / ⓘ), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities. [2]
At that time it had 3444 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.14%. 73% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 71% recommended it as a place to work. [5] The trust spent £11 million on agency staff in 2014/5. [6] It was rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission in December 2019. [7]
John Hitchman MRCS (1805 – 3 March 1867) was a British medical doctor and philanthropist associated with the town of Royal Leamington Spa.Born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, Hitchman moved to Royal Leamington Spa by 1828 to work as a surgeon.
The hospital was named after Samuel Wilson Warneford, a philanthropist who donated £3,000 of the £4,000 needed to build the hospital. [2] The foundation stone was laid in 1832 [3] and it opened in 1834. [2] It was initially funded either by the patients themselves, by wealthy individual donors or by collections made from the general public. [2]
The hospital was established in 1981 as a charitable trust and joined the Nuffield Hospitals group in 1994, which rebranded to Nuffield Health. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References
Local hospitals include Warwick Hospital, the Leamington Spa Hospital, [29] St Michael's Hospital and the Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital (non-NHS, part of the Nuffield Health group) [30] Social services is pro On 13 July 2021 a coronavirus "mega lab" was opened in the town. Named after English chemist Rosalind Franklin. The site is expected to ...
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