Mynydd Mawr Hospital () was a

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at Upper Tumble,

Llanelli ; ) is a market town and community (Wales), community in Carmarthenshire and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is on the estuary of the River Loughor and is the largest town in the Principal areas of Wales, ...

, Wales. It was managed by the

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History

The hospital was established as the West Wales Isolation Hospital in the 1920s. It joined the

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in 1948 and it was extended in the 1970s. After services transferred to the

Prince Philip Hospital Prince Philip Hospital () is a hospital in Llanelli, Wales. It is managed by Hywel Dda University Health Board Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) () is the local health board of NHS Wales for the west of Wales. Established on 1 October ...

in Llanelli, Mynydd Mawr Hospital closed in October 2013.

References

{{authority control Defunct hospitals in Wales Hospitals in Carmarthenshire