Heartlands Hospital
Hospital in West Midlands, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heartlands Hospital, formerly East Birmingham District Hospital,[1] 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 and the Heartlands Treatment Centre | |
  Location within West Midlands | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
| Coordinates | 52.4788°N 1.8295°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | District General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 1895 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895.[2][3] Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901.[3] Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904.[3] It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.[3]
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953.[3] It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.[2] The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978.[4] It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.[5]
The hospital's outpatient facilities were greatly expanded through the opening of the Heartlands Treatment Centre, an 18,000 sq metre four-storey building containing 120 consultation rooms, 26 specialist audiology and ear nose and throat rooms, ultrasound and X-ray rooms, and CT scan and MRI scanning facilities.[6] The facility was handed over to the NHS trust in November 2022, and opened to patients in January 2023.[7]
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