St Ann's Hospital, Dorset

Coordinates: 50°42′00″N 1°55′41″W / 50.700°N 1.928°W / 50.700; -1.928

St Ann's Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in the Canford Cliffs area of Poole, Dorset, run by Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust. Designed by Robert Weir Schultz, the hospital opened in 1912 at a cost of £46,500. The hospital was given £35,000,000 for development in 2011, this was spent on 2 new wards and refurbishment,^[1] £14 million of this was spent by 2013 then the phased building works stopped until 2015.

St Ann's achieved when inspected by the CQC achieved all standards care.^[2]

Patients that stay at St Ann's hospital may be detained under the Mental Health Act or staying informally (able to leave at any time).

The hospital has 6 acute locked wards and 1 other separate unit on the same site:

• Chine Ward for Female Inpatients (Treatment Ward)
• Harbour Ward for Male Inpatients (Treatment Ward)
• Twynham Ward a low secure forensics unit
• Seaview Ward (Acute admissions unit) for newly admitted Inpatients of mixed sex (Assessment Ward)
• Alumhurst Ward for Inpatients generally over 65 years of age and mixed sex - usually without a diagnosis of dementia
• Haven Ward which is a PICU for Inpatients that demonstrate severe acute illness on separate - male and female Wards.

Kimmeridge Court is on the same site but is a separate unit for eating disorder patients.

English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.^[3]

See also

Holloway Sanatorium

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