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St Ann's Hospital, Dorset

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Affiliated university
  
None

Phone
  
+44 1202 708881

Founded
  
1910

Care system
  
National Health Service

Lists
  
Hospitals in England

Number of beds
  
86

Hospital type
  
Psychiatric hospital

Location
  
Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Emergency department
  
No Accident & Emergency

Address
  
69 Haven Rd, Poole BH13 7LN, UK

Similar
  
Poole Hospital, Royal Bournem Hospital, Nuffield Health Bournem, BMI The Harbour Hospital, Victoria Hospital

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, £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.

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 (Assessment 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 on separate - male and female Wards.
  • 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.

    References

    St Ann's Hospital, Dorset Wikipedia