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The hospital has its origins in a facility at Farnham Road which opened in 1866. [2] Before that there had been a dispensary, catering for the poor of Guildford, in a 16th century house in Quarry street from 1859 to 1866. [3] The hospital moved to Egerton Road in Guildford and opened on 16 October 1978 as the Guildford District Hospital. [4]
The hospital was founded by George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1611–1633) in 1619 to provide homes for the elderly of Guildford. [2] It is on the High Street in Guildford, opposite the Holy Trinity Church, where its founder, the Archbishop, is buried. The architecture and layout echoed that of contemporary Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
Some are freestanding, while others attach to the side of the tub. There are also models that integrate with a wheeled chair, with the transfer frame in the tub connecting to the chair. A newly developed shower bench design has three sets of rails that dock together permitting a seated patient to roll from a mobile chair into a bathtub or shower.
A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, Hoyer lift, or hydraulic lift) may be either a sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift.This is an assistive device that allows patients in hospitals and nursing homes and people receiving home health care to be transferred between a bed and a chair or other similar resting places, by the use of electrical or hydraulic power.
Guildford (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l f ər d / ⓘ) [2] is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London.As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 [1] and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 145,673 inhabitants in 2022. [3]
The facility has its origins in the Guildford Poor Law Infirmary established in 1856. [1] The infirmary was enlarged in 1870 and replaced by a new facility laid out in pavilion style in 1893. [1] It became the Warren Road Hospital in 1930 and it joined the National Health Service as St Luke's Hospital in 1948. [2]