The facilities has its origins in a cottage hospital established by the conversion of a house on Steamer Quay Road in the 19th century.[1] This was replaced by a new purpose-built cottage hospital built by Thomas Brook on Bridgetown Hill in the 1890s.[1][2] The Bridgetown Hill facility eventually became decrepit and, after the hospital closed in the early 1990s, the site was developed as Varian Court.[1]
The current facility on Coronation Road, which replaced both the old Bridgetown Hill facility and the Broomborough Hospital, was opened by the Duchess of Kent in 1993.[1] The hospital was briefly closed because of the discovery of the legionella bacteria in January 2019.[3]