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on the A16, north of the town of

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near the mini-roundabout with the A52. It is situated virtually on the Greenwich Meridian and adjacent to Boston High School. The fenland area of Lincolnshire is covered by this hospital, being the county's second largest hospital after

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. It is managed by

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History

Pilgrim Hospital from Willoughby Hills - geograph

The hospital has its origins in temporary premises which opened as the Boston Cottage Hospital in 1871. A purpose-built facility designed by William Henry Wheeler was built in Bath Gardens between 1874 and 1875. Additions included an outpatients' department completed in 1926, a nurses' home in 1934 and a maternity wing in 1936. The facility joined the

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in 1948. Following a design competition held in 1961, a completely new building was designed by the

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, one of its earliest public buildings, under Sir George Grenfell-Baines. The first phase of the new hospital, named after the town's

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, opened in 1971, and after the subsequent phases were completed, the new facility was officially opened by

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on 23 June 1977. The £2.1 million medical education centre was built in late 1992 by Lindum Construction (for the Trent Regional Health Authority). It was later renovated by Taylor Pearson of

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in April 2008. In 2010, the Energy Centre was overhauled. Cofely (part of

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) installed a 526 kWe engine-based CHP, supplied by

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, which is supplemented by a 2.9 MW

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-fuelled biomass steam boiler, supplied by Binder of Austria, with further conventional dual fuel steam boilers. The wood chips are locally sourced from

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. In June 2011 a £2.5 million renovation began on the

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Facilities

The main part of the hospital consists of a ten-storey building. It has twenty wards and has a busy maternity unit. Just north of the building there is a helicopter landing pad, used by the

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. An innovative way of managing hip fractures developed since May 2012, has seen the hospital recognised as the best in the country for treating patients with broken hips with 30 day mortality of 6% compared with a national average of 9% and an average length of stay of 11.6 days compared with a national figure of 23 days. The

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raised concerns about the treatment of children in the emergency department, and about the early detection of critically ill patients.

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NHS Choices
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