Cardigan and District Community Hospital ( cy, Aberteifi a'r Cylch Ysbyty Cymunedol) was a

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Cardigan, Ceredigion Cardigan ( cy, Aberteifi, ) is both a town and a community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. Positioned on the tidal reach of the River Teifi at the point where Ceredigion meets Pembrokeshire, Cardigan was the county town of the historic cou ...

, Wales. It was managed by

Hywel Dda University Health Board Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) ( cy, Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda) is the local health board of NHS Wales for the west of Wales. Established on 1 October 2009 from the merger of the Hywel Dda NHS Trust, the Pembrokeshire Local He ...

History

The building was originally a private house known as "The Priory" which was designed by John Nash and completed in 1789. It was converted into a hospital, based on designs by John Teifion James Williams, and re-opened in March 1922. A new outpatients department was opened by Dame Margaret Lloyd-George in September 1923. It joined the

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in 1948 and the interior was completely rebuilt in the early 1960s. It closed to inpatients in 2013. After outpatient services were transferred to

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, it closed completely on 10 December 2019. The future of the site is under discussion.

References

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