Leamington Spa Hospital is located on Heathcote Lane in

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ...

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, in England. Originally an isolation

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, it is now a hospital run by

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, formerly South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, runs Warwick Hospital which has 350 beds and provides inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic services. The trust also runs Stratford Hospital whe ...

specialising in

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History

The facility was established as an isolation hospital for treating contagious diseases known as Heathcote Hospital in 1887. A nurses' home was built 1937. The hospital started to focus specifically on

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cases in 1952 and was converted for use as a geriatric hospital in 1959. In the early 21st century steps were take to convert the buildings for use as a rehabilitation centre. Feldon Ward, which was refurbished for use as a state-of-the-art stroke unit, re-opened in 2006. Campion and Chadwick Wards, which form the core of the new rehabilitation hospital, were similarly refurbished and officially opened by the

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on 29 January 2015.

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