Gravesham Community Hospital

Gravesham Community Hospital is a community hospital in Gravesend in the borough of Gravesham in Kent.

Gravesham Community Hospital
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Geography
Location	Gravesend, Kent, England
Coordinates	51.4431°N 0.3654°E / 51.4431; 0.3654
Organisation
Care system	National Health Service
Funding	Public
Type	Community
Services
Emergency department	Urgent treatment centre only
Beds	104
History
Construction started	2005
Opened	June 2006
Links
Website	www.dgt.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/visiting-gravesham-community-hospital www.kentcht.nhs.uk/location/gravesham-community-hospital/

History

Plans for the hospital were approved in 2000, for a new community hospital to be built of the site of the former Gravesend and North Kent Hospital, which stood on the site since 1854.^[1] The old hospital closed in 2004, and construction for the new hospital started in 2005, and opened in June 2006.^[2]

Services

Services include an urgent treatment centre run by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and radiology (x-ray) and outpatient orthopaedic and paediatric services run by Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust.^[3]