St Austell Community Hospital is a health facility in Porthpean Road,
St Austell
Saint Austell (, ; ) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon.
At the 2021 Census in the United Kingdom, census it had a population of 20,900.
History
St Austell was a village centred ...
,
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England. It is managed by
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The facility was commissioned to replace the aging Sedgemoor Priory Hospital and was the first community hospital in Cornwall that did not pre-date the formation of the
National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
. It was financed in part by a legacy from Joan Rosemary Cobbold-Sawle and opened as Penrice Hospital in the 1970s. The Mount Edgcumbe Hospice was built on the same site, just to the north of the hospital, and was completed in 1980. In April 2019, the birthing centre at the hospital started providing birthing, postnatal stays and assessment services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Hospitals in Cornwall
NHS hospitals in England
St Austell