Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
Forster Green Hospital
Forster Green Hospital in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Forster Green Hospital is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Forster Green Hospital was a non-acute hospital located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It offered a range of services including neurology, care of older people, and a child and family centre. The hospital was located on a 47-acre site in South Belfast. It was managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and closed in 2012. Located within the hospital grounds is the regional child and adolescent mental health inpatients unit, Beechcroft. This opened in 2010. Knockbreda Wellbeing and Treatment centre is also located within the grounds of Forster Green and opened in 2009. This has been described as a "one stop approach" to healthcare as it offers a wide range of healthcare services for the local community including general practice and physiotherapy.
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Background
History
The hospital was founded by Forster Green, a tea and coffee merchant who purchased Fortbreda House and the surrounding grounds for a total sum of £11,000 in 1895 with the plan to build a hospital specifically for the treatment of consumption and chest complaints. Green was aware of the challenges posed by the setting up and running of a hospital as he was a life governor of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. At the time one of the only treatments for tuberculosis was access to fresh air, this was one of the reasons why the Fortbreda site, with its location at the time being outside the city in relative countryside, was a perfect location for a consumption unit. Over the subsequent two…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5618, -5.9081
- Address
- Saintfield Road
- Established
- 1897
- Official site
- www.belfasttrust.hscni.net
Sources
- wikidata: Q60743399 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Forster Green Hospital (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Forster Green Hospital?
- Forster Green Hospital is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5618°, -5.9081°.
- When was Forster Green Hospital built?
- Forster Green Hospital dates to 1897.