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St Ann's Hospital, Dorset

Coordinates: 50°42′00″N 1°55′41″W / 50.700°N 1.928°W / 50.700; -1.928
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Template:Distinguish2 50°42′00″N 1°55′41″W / 50.700°N 1.928°W / 50.700; -1.928

St Ann's Hospital
Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Map
Geography
LocationPoole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypePsychiatric Hospital
Affiliated universityNone
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds86
History
Opened1910
Links
Websitehttp://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/
ListsHospitals in England

St Ann's Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in the Canford Cliffs area of Poole, Dorset, run by Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust. Designed by Robert Weir Schultz, the hospital opened in 1912 at a cost of £46,500. The hospital was given £35,000,000 for development in 2011, this was spent on 2 new wards and refurbishment,[1] £14 million of this was spent by 2013 then the phased building works stopped until 2015.

St Ann's achieved when inspected by the CQC achieved all standards care.[2]

Patients that stay at St Ann's hospital may be detained under the Mental Health Act or staying informally (able to leave at any time).

The hospital has 6 acute locked (patient's cannot leave without a staff member allowing them out) wards and 1 other separate unit on the same site:

  • Chine Ward for Female Inpatients (Treatment Ward)
  • Harbour Ward for Male Inpatients (Treatment Ward)
  • Twynham Ward a low secure forensics unit
  • Seaview Ward (AAU - Acute admissions unit) for newly admitted Inpatients of mixed sex (Assesment Ward)
  • Alumhurst Ward for Inpatients over 65 years of age and mixed sex - non dementia
  • Haven Ward which is a PICU for Inpatients that demonstrate severe acute illness of single sex - male only

Currently has no provision for female PICU patients.

Kimmeridge Court is on the same site but is a separate unit for eating disorders.

English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.[3]

References

  1. ^ [1], Retrieved 8 May 2015
  2. ^ [2], Retrieved 8 May "2015"
  3. ^ Historic England. "St Anne's Hospital (1267416)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 June 2014.