Sandviken Hospital | |
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Bergen Hospital Trust | |
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Geography | |
Location | Sandviken, Bergen, Norway |
Coordinates | 60°25′05″N5°18′50″E / 60.418°N 5.314°E |
Organisation | |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | Psychriatric |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Helipad | No |
History | |
Opened | 1891 |
Links | |
Website | helse-bergen.no |
Lists | Hospitals in Norway |
Sandviken Hospital (Norwegian : Sandviken sykehus) is a psychiatric hospital situated in the Sandviken neighborhood of Bergen, Norway. It is part of Bergen Hospital Trust, and is the only secure psychiatric unit within Western Norway Regional Health Authority. [1]
The hospital was established in 1891 as Neevengården Asylum (Neevengården asyl). It changed its name to Neevengården Hospital (Neevengården sykehus) in 1927, and took the current name in 1978. [2] The hospital was constructed and owned by Bergen municipality, but was transferred to Hordaland county in 1972. It had place for 178 patients initially, but by 1955 reached a top of 518 patients. The hospital was in 2002 merged with the Psychiatric clinic of Haukeland University Hospital, and has since then been a part of the Bergen Hospital Trust and owned by the Norwegian state. [2] [3]
After a continuous reduction in the number of rooms/beds, the hospital has since the 2010s had hundreds of cases each year of patients being placed in hospital beds in the hallways. [4] [5]
The hospital has repeatedly received strong criticism from the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for its extensive use of isolation rooms. [6] [7]
In 2023 the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision found several legal and regulation offences at the hospital's emergency department. [8]