St Luke's Hospital was a

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, England. It was managed by

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The facility, which initially absorbed patients from the aging North Riding Asylum in

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, was designed by

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using a compact arrow layout. It opened as the Middlesbrough Borough Asylum in June 1898. It joined the

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as St Luke's Hospital in 1948. In 1980, the South Cleveland Hospital was built on parkland adjacent to St Luke's Hospital. In November 1980 the regional medium-secure psychiatric unit was established in a modern building to the rear of the hospital called the Hutton Centre. St Luke's was demolished in 2010 to make way for the new

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