Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital | |
Org/Group: | Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board |
Map Type: | Wales Gwynedd |
Location: | Blaenau Ffestiniog |
Region: | Gwynedd |
Country: | Wales |
Coordinates: | 52.9916°N -3.935°W |
Healthcare: | NHS Wales |
Type: | Community |
Founded: | 1927 |
Closed: | 2013 |
Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Coffa Ffestiniog) was a hospital in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. Closed in 2013, it was managed by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The building re-opened as Canolfan Goffa Ffestiniog health centre in 2017.
The facility, which was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, was officially opened by Colonel David Davies MP as the Festiniog and District Heroes Memorial Hospital in 1927.[1] It was intended to commemorate local soldiers who had died in the First World War.[2] After joining the National Health Service in 1948, it developed as a community hospital but, after inpatient services transferred to Ysbyty Alltwen in Tremadog, it closed to inpatients in March 2013.[3] [4] It then re-opened as the Canolfan Goffa Ffestiniog (meaning: Ffestiniog Memorial Centre) health centre in November 2017.[5]