Blaenavon Hospital | |
Map Type: | Wales Torfaen |
Location: | Blaenavon |
Region: | Torfaen County Borough |
State: | Wales |
Country: | UK |
Coordinates: | 51.7747°N -3.0908°W |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Type: | Community |
Beds: | 9 |
Founded: | 1924 |
Closed: | 2014 |
Blaenavon Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Blaenafon) was a small community hospital located in Blaenavon, Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
In 1924, Ty Mawr, a house on the eastern side of Church Road, originally built for Sam Hopkins, ironmaster of Blaenavon Ironworks, was converted into a hospital.
A new purpose-built hospital was built on the western side of Church Road in 1985 and Ty Mawr became a nursing home known as The Beaches.[1] The beds in the new hospital were closed to in-patients in October 2010[2] and, after primary care services were transferred to the new Blaenavon Resource Centre on Middle Coed Cae Road, it closed completely in autumn 2014.[3]