page_title: Cottage hospital
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Cottage hospital / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan (by me, R. de Salis, Rodolph (talk) 13:18, 4 December 2014 (UTC)) of the Elevation and Plan of Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital as seen in the Report of 1913, but made 1884 by Mr. C. John Mann. thumbnail|left|Report of the Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital, June 20th, 1913.
context_page_description: A cottage hospital is a semi-obsolete type of small hospital, most commonly found in the United Kingdom.
  The original concept was a small rural building having several beds. The advantages of such a hospital in villages were the provision of care which avoided long journeys to county or voluntary hospitals, facilities to deal more immediately with emergencies, and familiarity the local physician might have with their patients that may affect their treatment. This local knowledge of the patient would probably have been lost had they been referred to their nearest county hospital, as was typical for poorer patients.
  Some of these buildings continued to be known as cottage hospitals until recent times. In particular, several are still recognisable in Scotland within the infrastructure of NHS Grampian, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway, and in Norfolk and Suffolk in England, an example being the Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital, which is still working as a traditional cottage hospital. The term community hospital is now applied to most of these buildings where they are used to deliver healthcare, reflecting the wider range of services that are provided in more modern times.
context_section_description: Turriff Cottage Hospital
  Ruth Lancaster James Hospital, Alston, Cumbria
  Fleming Cottage Hospital, Aberlour, Morayshire.
  Stephen Cottage Hospital
  Wells Cottage Hospital, Norfolk
  Castle Douglas Cottage Hospital
  Lochmaben Hospital, Dumfries and Galloway
  Cottage Hospital, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
  Swanage Cottage Hospital, Dorset, UK
  Stretford Memorial Hospital (formerly the Stretford Practitioners' Hospital) was in its early days a cottage hospital used for women and children only.
  Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital, Middlesex.
  Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital
  Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
  Cottage Hospitals in Newfoundland, Canada
caption: Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital, Middlesex, founded 1884.
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