page_title: Medway Maritime Hospital
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Medway Maritime Hospital / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bus Stop, Medway Maritime Hospital, Data from Geograph: Description: Many Arriva buses and a few Chalkwell Buses use this stop to drop-off patients and staff at the large hospital. ICBM: 51.379377021404, 0.54327075758115 Location: (about 1 km from) near to Luton, Medway, Great Britain.
context_page_description: Medway Maritime Hospital is a general hospital in Gillingham, England within the NHS South East Coast. It is run by Medway NHS Foundation Trust. It is Kent's largest and busiest hospital, dealing with around 400,000 patients annually. It was founded as the Royal Naval Hospital in 1902 for the Naval personnel at the Chatham Dockyard. The hospital was where the Piano Man was taken after being found wandering in a soaking wet suit and tie.
context_section_description: The hospital was built as a replacement Royal Naval Hospital for the 252 bed Melville Hospital (Naval), which was not large enough to deal with the increasing numbers of Naval personnel moving into Chatham; it was opened by King Edward VII on 26 July 1905. At that time the main corridor was almost 1,000 feet long. The hospital's large Grade II listed water tower, which acts as a local landmark over Gillingham, was built around the same time. On 15 January 1961 the hospital was transferred by the Admiralty to the NHS and became part of the Medway Health Authority. The hospital closed for modernisation, and after some delays, opened again in 1965 under the name "Medway Hospital". After a £60 million development in 1999, the hospital changed its name to "Medway Maritime Hospital" and services were transferred from neighbouring hospitals St Bartholomew's in Rochester and All Saints' in Chatham.
caption: An Arriva bus at Medway Maritime Hospital bus stop
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