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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.
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A rococo sedan chair arrives at a garden party; 19th-century oil painting by G. Borgelli. By the mid-17th century, sedans for hire had become a common mode of transportation. London had "chairs" available for hire in 1634, each assigned a number and the chairmen licensed because the operation was a monopoly of a courtier of King Charles I.
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A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, or Hoyer 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.
The foundation stone for the hospital was laid by Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, at a site donated by the Earl of Onslow in Farnham Road in Guildford in 1863. [2] The 60-bed hospital was designed by Edward Ward Lower drawing on the ideas of Florence Nightingale and was opened as the Royal Surrey County Hospital in April 1866. [3 ...