The Whitby Hospital is a

community hospital A community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. When specific, it refers to a hospital that is accessible to the general public, and provides a general or specific medical care which is usually short-term, i ...

in Springhill,

Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Clif ...

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. It is managed by

Humber NHS Foundation Trust Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Humber NHS Foundation Trust) provides health and social care services to a population of almost 800,000 people across Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North Ea ...

History

The hospital was first housed in a Church Street facility in 1896. In 1901 that was replaced by a more permanent facility in Grape Street in 1901. A new facility built to commemorate lives lost in the

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was built at Springhill and opened by Princess Mary in 1925. The memorial hospital was demolished and replaced by a modern facility which was opened by

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in 1979. In February 2018 it was agreed to redevelop the hospital site at a cost of £12 million into a "health and wellbeing hub" with an urgent care centre and 19 inpatient beds.

References

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