St Ann's Hospital, Dorset
50°42′00″N 1°55′41″W / 50.700°N 1.928°W
| St Ann's Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | |
 | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Psychiatric Hospital |
| Affiliated university | None |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 86 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1910 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals 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 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 (Acute admissions unit) for newly admitted Inpatients of mixed sex (Assessment Ward)
- Alumhurst Ward for Inpatients generally over 65 years of age and mixed sex - usually without a diagnosis of dementia
- Haven Ward which is a PICU for Inpatients that demonstrate severe acute illness on separate - male and female Wards.
Kimmeridge Court is on the same site but is a separate unit for eating disorder patients.
English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.[3]
See also
References
- ^ [1], Retrieved 8 May 2015
- ^ [2], Retrieved 8 May "2015"
- ^ Historic England. "St Anne's Hospital (1267416)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 June 2014.