Gransha Hospital

Gransha Hospital
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Part of the old Gransha Hospital
Location in Northern Ireland
Geography
Location	Clooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°00′55″N 7°16′46″W / 55.0154°N 7.2794°W / 55.0154; -7.2794Coordinates: 55°00′55″N 7°16′46″W / 55.0154°N 7.2794°W / 55.0154; -7.2794
Organisation
Care system	Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Type	Community
History
Opened	1902

Gransha Hospital was a health facility in Clooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland. The site is managed by Western Health and Social Care Trust.

History[]

The facility was commissioned to replace the aging Londonderry County Asylum.^[1] It was designed by Matthew Alexander Robinson in the Victorian style and built between 1902 and 1905.^[2]

After joining the National Health Service in 1948,^[3] the facility evolved to become the Stradreagh Hospital.^[4] Two gate lodges were added in the 1960s.^[5] Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and almost all buildings in the old hospital were closed by December 2011.^[6]

The main building of the old hospital was occupied by Oakgrove Integrated College on a temporary basis from 1992^[7] until the college moved into modern purpose-built accommodation in 2004.^[8] It was subsequently left to decay and was badly damaged in a serious fire in March 2016.^[9]

Current facilities[]

The following modern facilities have been established at Gransha Park, the site of the old hospital:

• Grangewood Hospital, which was designed by Avanti Architects in collaboration with Kennedy Fitzgerald and built by Heron Brothers at a cost of £10.8 million, was completed in November 2012.^[10][11] The 30-bed hospital provides inpatient acute mental health care services.^[12]
• Lakeview Hospital, which was built at a cost of £4.8 million, was completed in October 2005.^[13] The 43-bed facility provides assessment and treatment for people with learning and mental health problems.^[13]
• Waterside Hospital, which dates back to the 1970s,^[14][15] was partially refurbished in 2014.^[16] The facility provides services for elderly people including dementia sufferers.^[16]

• 

  Lakeview Hospital

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  Waterside Hospital

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