Heartlands Hospital is at the heart of a bustling, dynamic community. A large site consisting of modern, state-of-the-art buildings purpose built to provide the highest possible quality of patient care and support services, Heartlands is the flagship hospital of the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and offers a huge array of facilities and procedures. Its dedicated staff serve a diverse population with professionalism and pride.
History Of Heartlands Hospital
There has been a hospital on the Birmingham Heartlands site since June 29th 1895, when the first patient was admitted suffering from smallpox. 1978 saw the world's last smallpox case admitted to the hospital. The original hospital was established to provide treatment in isolation for those suffering from Tuberculosis and Diphtheria.
Since that time the hospital has grown into one of the largest in the country with the site changing beyond recognition. Over recent years the Trust has recognised the need to invest if it is to provide the best in patient care. This investment has included ambitious development programmes:
2005 - New Main Entrance completed at Heartlands Hospital
2002 - New Medical Unit and The West Midlands Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit opened at a cost of £10 million
2002 - £1 Million Pathology Laboratories opened
2001 - The Fracture Clinic moved to a new building alongside Accident & Emergency, with a new helipad for emergency helicopters
2000 - £6.5 million Elderly Care and Infectious Diseases Unit opened Hospital
1999 - The completion of three new Children's Wards developed at a cost of £3 million
1998 - The development of new Day Surgery and Women's units in both Heartlands and Solihull hospitals
1997 - The new £1.3 million MRI Scanner, Renal Dialysis Unit and new Ophthalmology department opened
1996 - Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals merged
1995 - The £1.5 million Heartlands Education Centre opened
1994 - A new Accident & Emergency Unit was opened at Heartlands Hospital which treats 80,000 people every year and is the busiest in Birmingham. The completion of the £850,000 Glaxo Renal Unit at Heartlands, which is one of the NHS's flagship renal units
1992 - The Princess of Wales Maternity Unit opened, which has one of Birmingham's major neo-natal units. The neo-natal unit has seven intensive care beds, three high dependency and twelve special care cots
