Gorseinon Hospital ( cy, Ysbyty Gorseinon) is a rehabilitation hospital in

Gorseinon Gorseinon is a town within the City and County of Swansea, Wales, near the Loughor estuary. It was a small village until the late 19th century when it grew around the coal mining and tinplate industries. It is situated in the north west of Swa ...

, Wales. It is managed by

Swansea Bay University Health Board Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) ( cy, Bwrdd lechyd Prifysgol Bae Abertawe) is the local health board of NHS Wales for Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, in the south-west of Wales. Established as Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health ...

History

The hospital was established by William Rufus Lewis, proprietor of the local woolen mill firm of William Lewis & Sons, in 1936. It joined the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

as a general hospital in 1948 but subsequently developed a large maternity department and became the Gorseinon General and Maternity Hospital. It specialised as a rehabilitation hospital in the early 1990s and then developed a treatment centre to help patients with

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

in 2004.

References

Hospitals in Swansea Hospitals established in 1936 NHS hospitals in Wales 1936 establishments in Wales Swansea Bay University Health Board {{UK-hospital-stub