St Ann's Hospital, Dorset

Coordinates: 50°42′00″N 1°55′41″W / 50.700°N 1.928°W / 50.700; -1.928

St Ann's Hospital
Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Geography
Location	Poole, Dorset, England , United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Hospital type	Psychiatric Hospital
Affiliated university	None
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	86
History
Founded	1910
Links
Website	http://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/
Lists	Hospitals in the United Kingdom

St Ann's Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in the Canford Cliffs area of Poole, Dorset, run by Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust. Designed by Robert Weir Schultz, the hospital opened in 1912 at a cost of £46,500. The hospital was given £35,000,000 for development in 2011, this was spent on 2 new wards and refurbishment,^[1] £14 million of this was spent by 2013 then the phased building works stopped until 2015.

St Ann's achieved when inspected by the CQC achieved all standards care.^[2]

Patients that stay at St Ann's hospital may be detained under the Mental Health Act or staying informally (able to leave at any time - althought even the open wards have a locked door policy).

The hospital has 6 acute locked (patient's cannot leave without a staff member allowing them out) wards and 1 other separate unit on the same site:

• Dudsbury Ward for Female Inpatient's
• Harbour Ward for Male Inpatient's
• Twynham Ward a low secure forensics unit
• Seaview Ward (AAU - Acute admissions unit) for newly admitted Inpatient's of mixed sex
• Alumhurst Ward for Inpatient's over 65 years of age and mixed sex - non dementia
• Haven Ward which is a PICU for Inpatient's that demonstrate severe acute illness of single sex - male only

Currently has no provision for female PICU patients.

Kimmeridge Court is on the same site but is a separate unit for eating disorders.

English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.^[3]

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