Care system Specialiazed Website Tower Hospital Hospital type Psychiatry | Emergency department No Phone +27 46 645 5000 | |
Location Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa Address Somerset Street, Fort Beaufort, 5720, South Africa Similar Fort Beaufort Hospital, Winterberg Santa Centre, Nkonkobe Municipal, Peppertree House, Oak Bed and Breakfast | ||
Tower Psychiatric Hospital is a government funded Psychiatric hospital and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre in the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality area of Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape in South Africa. It provides long term psychiatric care and psychosocial rehabilitation services to the entire Eastern Cape. The hospital has a full time Psychiatrist since December 2015.
The hospital departments include a Rehabilitation Centre (consisting of onsite adult basic education, computer literacy, leather works, piggery, carpentry and art work. , Pharmacy, Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV/AIDS, Laundry Services, Kitchen Service. The art work project has had exhibitions at the Grahamstown Arts Festival.
Coat of arms
The hospital registered a coat of arms at the Bureau of Heraldry in 1970 : Or, a tower of Fort Beaufort proper, ensigned with an antique lamp Azure enflamed Gules, over all a looped tau cross, Or, between two wings Azure. The arms were designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton and Cornelis Pama.