The Bangor Community Hospital is a health facility in Castle Street, Bangor,

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. It is managed by the

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History

The facility, which was designed by Young and MacKenzie in the neo-Georgian style, was opened as Bangor Cottage Hospital in 1910. It was extended in 1925 and, after joining the

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in 1948, it evolved to become Bangor Community Hospital. Despite a local campaign to stop the closure, a 20-bed inpatient ward was closed in June 2015.

References

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