King's Mill Hospital
History
King's Mill was opened as the 30th General Hospital of California, a military hospital, in 1942. The hospital housed 400 injured American personnel as well as German prisoners of war.
Part of the site was used to accommodate Mansfield Secondary Technical School, taking students from 1945 housed in the Nissen huts that had been left by the US Army. It was officially opened by Sir Hubert Houldsworth, Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board on 22 June 1948. It later moved to new premises, becoming known as Sherwood Hall Secondary School.
Other areas of the site were used to create King's Mill Hospital. The hospital was officially opened by Hilary Marquand, the Minister of Health on 17 September 1951. The Dukeries Maternity Centre was opened by the Duchess of Devonshire on 14 January 1975.
New facilities were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2005. The works were carried out by Skanska at a cost of £300 million and opened in 2011. The design incorporated surface-solar energy heat recovery from an adjacent reservoir, which provides one-third of the heating and all of the cooling requirements for the complex. This involved submerging a grid of 140 stainless steel plates into the water at the deepest point, connected to the hospital via twin 350-millimetre (14 in) pipes laid under the A38 dual carriageway road.
After Maternity Services moved into a new Women and Children's Centre, the old Dukeries Maternity Centre was finally demolished in spring 2013.
Facilities
Millside Radio established in 1989 provides entertainment for patients using in-house studios and a wired network run by volunteers.
The ambulance station, operated by the East Midlands Ambulance Service, opened in 1981 is located nearby on the A38 road.
References
- ^ "Mansfield District Council planning application archive". Mansfield District Council. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "The Story behind King's Mill". Chad. 23 June 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Annals of Mansfield from 1086 to 1999". Mansfield District Council Museum. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ "Dukeries demolition marks end of an era" (PDF). Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 1 April 2013. p. 18. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Skanska wins PFI hospital scheme in Nottinghamshire". Modern Building Services. 18 December 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "King's Mill Hospital". GI Energy. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ "Dukeries Centre demolition". Chad. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ Millside Radio set to mark 25 years on hospital airwaves. Chad (local newspaper), 1 Oct 2014, p.42. Accessed 22 November 2020.
