Rubery Hill Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Nightingale Grove, Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
Coordinates | 52°23′54″N 2°00′51″W / 52.3982°N 2.0143°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1882 |
Closed | 1993 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Rubery Hill Hospital was a mental health facility in Birmingham, England. The chapel, which still survives, is a Grade II listed building. [1]
The hospital, which was designed by William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain using a Standard Pavilion layout, opened as the Second Birmingham City Asylum in January 1882. [2] [3] Additional ward pavilions were completed in 1897. [2] It became the 1st Birmingham War Hospital during the First World War and then became Rubery Hill Mental Hospital in 1919. [2] During the Second World War it remained a civilian establishment. [2] It joined the National Health Service as Rubery Hill Hospital in 1948. [2]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1993. [2] Most of the buildings were subsequently demolished. [2]