Broadgreen Hospital

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Broadgreen Hospital is a teaching hospital in the suburb of Broadgreen; in the city of Liverpool, England. Alongside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool University Dental Hospital in the city centre; the hospital belongs to and operates on behalf of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.The hospital shares its main buildings with Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Although the two NHS Trusts are completely separate from one another in the provision of services, they are often collectively referred to as Broadgreen.Broadgreen Hospital also contains Liverpool's only broadcasting hospital radio service. Radio Broadgreen broadcasts live from within the hospital and broadcasts 50 hours of live programming a week through volunteers.HistoryBroadgreen was first established as an epileptic home and later as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis in the early 20th century, when it was then known as Highfield Infirmary. Following the bombing of city centre hospitals during the Second World War, and the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948, Broadgreen was expanded into a large district general hospital with a full range of medical and surgical acute services.