Totnes Community Hospital | |
Org/Group: | Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust |
Location: | Coronation Road, Totnes |
Region: | Devon |
Country: | England |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Type: | Community |
Founded: | 19th century |
Map Type: | Devon |
Coordinates: | 50.4327°N -3.684°W |
Totnes Community Hospitalis a health facility on Coronation Road in Totnes, Devon, England. It is managed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
The facilities has its origins in a cottage hospital established by the conversion of a house on Steamer Quay Road in the 19th century.[1] This was replaced by a new purpose-built cottage hospital built by Thomas Brook on Bridgetown Hill in the 1890s.[1] [2] The Bridgetown Hill facility eventually became decrepit and, after the hospital closed in the early 1990s, the site was developed as Varian Court.[1]
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 in 1993.[1] The hospital was briefly closed because of the discovery of the legionella bacteria in January 2019.[3]