Bodmin Hospital is a community hospital in

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, England. It is managed by the

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides community health services to children and young people and mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Cornwall, England. It runs Longreach House in Redruth, and B ...

History

A new facility was procured under a

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contract in 2000 to replace both St Lawrence's Hospital and the old East Cornwall Hospital. The new hospital was built at a cost of £10 million and was opened by

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in 2002.

Services

The hospital has five psychiatric and dementia wards, plus two wards for physical health and well-being. Services include an

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department, a dental clinic and a psychiatry department. A new young person's mental health unit, the 14-bed Sowenna unit, was built in 2018.

Art

The construction of the new hospital was an opportunity for art to be integrated into the fabric of the building at the design build stage.

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was appointed Artist in Residence. He worked alongside the architects, engineers, builders, landscape architects, interior designers and project managers to identify opportunities for incorporating art into the building and landscape. He undertook the

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and some of the creative projects such as the cobalt blue glazed wall pictured, as well as commissioning work from other, local artists including Danka Napiorkowska who produced three sand blasted panels of flowers with fibre optic lights running along the surface of the petals. Above the entrance to the hospital is a large oil painting depicting boats in the harbour painted by John Blight.

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* {{authority control Hospital buildings completed in 2006 NHS hospitals in England Hospitals in Cornwall Bodmin

History

Services

Art

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