Caerphilly District Miners Hospital
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox hospital Caerphilly District Miners’ Hospital (Template:Langx) was a community hospital in Caerphilly, Wales which was commissioned to provide healthcare to the miners, who worked in the local pits, and their families. It closed and was converted to a community centre in 2011.
History
The hospital was established in a private house known as "The Beeches" which was acquired from Frederick Piggott, a mining contractor.<ref name=points>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was commissioned to provide healthcare to the miners, who worked in the local pits, and their families.<ref name=points/><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Miners paid weekly subscriptions of 2.5 pence to the hospital to raise the £30,000 needed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The hospital received its first patient on 2 July 1923.<ref name=points/> In the 1940s the hospital broadened its services to the whole community rather than just miners and their families.<ref name=points/> In 1945 the Hospital Board acquired Redbrook House, another large property, and converted it into a nurses' home.<ref name=points/> The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.<ref name=points/>
It had a consultant-led birth centre which was, despite protests, changed to a midwife-led birth centre.<ref name=":0" /> The location of the hospital meant it was only able to treat part of the local population, preventing the full integration of services.<ref name=":0" />
The Welsh Government approved changes to hospital facilities in March 2000.<ref name=":0" /> After services transferred to Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr at Ystrad Mynach,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Caerphilly District Miners Hospital closed in November 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The site was subsequently redeveloped for housing and the main hospital building converted into a community centre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>