The site selected had previously been occupied by Mount Pleasant Hospital, a facility which had been built by the Admiralty for workers at the National Shipyard in Chepstow in 1917. It was used by ex-servicemen more generally from 1919, and later by the community as a whole. The new community hospital incorporates the old Admiralty portico moulding from the front façade of the old hospital.[1]St Lawrence Hospital, an old hospital specialising in burns, had been located on the western side of St Lawrence Road.[2][3]
The minor injuries unit closed in November 2011.[6] In March 2013 a local councillor raised concerns that the hospital was just becoming a "glorified health centre".[7]
References
^Ivor Waters, The Town of Chepstow, 1972, Published by The Chepstow Society (First Edition 1 Jan. 1974), ISBN 978-0900278235
