| Annan Hospital | |
|---|---|
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | |
  Shown in Dumfries and Galloway | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Stapleton Road, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 54°59′19″N3°14′48″W / 54.9886°N 3.2468°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Type | General |
| History | |
| Opened | 1987 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Annan Hospital is a health facility in Stapleton Road, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
The facility is a small community hospital which opened in 1987. [1] [2] In the early 21st century it began to specialise in palliative care and rehabilitation. [1] It was forced to close for three days during a gastroenteritis outbreak in 2016. [3]
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Annan is a town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Historically part of Dumfriesshire, its public buildings include Annan Academy, of which the writer Thomas Carlyle was a pupil, and a Georgian building now known as "Bridge House". Annan also features a Historic Resources Centre. In Port Street, some of the windows remain blocked up to avoid paying the window tax.
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