Heartlands Hospital
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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Heartlands Hospital
| Org/Group = University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
| Image = Heartlands Hospital and Heartlands Treatment Centre.jpg
| Caption = Heartlands Hospital and the Heartlands Treatment Centre
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| Location = Bordesley Green, Birmingham
| Region = West Midlands
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| Country = England
| Coordinates= {{coord| 52.4788|-1.8295|display=inline,title|region:GB_scale:8000}}
| HealthCare = NHS
| Type = District General
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| Emergency = Yes
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| Founded = 1895
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| Website = {{URL|https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/}}
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| map_type = West Midlands
| map_caption = Location within West Midlands
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Heartlands Hospital, formerly East Birmingham District Hospital,{{Cite news |date=2020-10-10 |title=Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital: 125 years seen through the lens |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-54463831 |access-date=2024-09-11 |language=en-GB}} is an acute general hospital in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England. It is managed by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895.{{cite web|url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/bufau2045_2016/index.cfm|title=Ward Block 10, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, West Midlands: Historic Building Record|publisher=Archaeology Data Service|accessdate=15 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/littlebromwich.htm|title=Little Bromwich Hospital|publisher=British Empire|accessdate=15 December 2018}} Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901. Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904. It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953. It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s. The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978.{{cite web|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/city-hospitals-have-a-long-and-proud-history-65633|title=City hospitals have a long and proud history|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Birmingham Mail|accessdate=15 December 2018}} It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/122/made?view=plain|title=The East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1993|publisher=Legislation.gov.uk|accessdate=15 December 2018}}
Development
The hospital's outpatient facilities were greatly expanded through the opening of the Heartlands Treatment Centre, an 18,000 sq metre four-storey building containing 120 consultation rooms, 26 specialist audiology and ear nose and throat rooms, ultrasound and X-ray rooms, and CT scan and MRI scanning facilities.{{cite news |title=Kier appointed to deliver £97.1m Heartlands Hospital project |url=https://www.buildingbetterhealthcare.com/news/article_page/Kier_appointed_to_deliver_971m_Heartlands_Hospital_project/165895/cn164706 |accessdate=11 July 2020 |publisher=Building Better Healthcare |date=1 June 2020}} The facility was handed over to the NHS trust in November 2022, and opened to patients in January 2023.{{cite news|url=https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/new-heartlands-treatment-centre-opens-its-doors-to-patients/625592?from=2023;49|title=New Heartlands Treatment Centre opens its doors to patients|accessdate=30 September 2023|date=10 January 2023|publisher=University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust}}
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