Totnes Community Hospitalis a health facility on Coronation Road in
Totnes
Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-southwest of Torquay and abo ...
,
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
, England. It is managed by
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of NHS services in Torbay and South Devon. The organisation is seen as pioneering in the English NHS because of the work done with Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Tr ...
.
History
The facilities has its origins in a cottage hospital established by the conversion of a house on Steamer Quay Road in the 19th century.
This was replaced by a new purpose-built cottage hospital built by Thomas Brook on Bridgetown Hill in the 1890s.
[ The Bridgetown Hill facility eventually became decrepit and, after the hospital closed in the early 1990s, the site was developed as Varian Court.][
The current facility on Coronation Road, which replaced both the old Bridgetown Hill facility and the Broomborough Hospital, was opened by the ]Duchess of Kent
Duchess of Kent is the principal courtesy title used by the wife of the Duke of Kent. There have been four titles referring to Kent since the 18th century. The current duchess is Katharine, the wife of Prince Edward. He inherited the dukedom ...
in 1993.[ The hospital was briefly closed because of the discovery of the ]legionella
''Legionella'' is a genus of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that includes the species '' L. pneumophila'', causing legionellosis (all illnesses caused by ''Legionella'') including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mil ...
bacteria in January 2019.
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Hospitals in Devon
Hospital buildings completed in 1993
NHS hospitals in England
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