Hope Hospital

Salford Royal Hospital
The hospital in 2006. The entrance boulder to the left of the photograph states the original name of the site, formerly known as Hope Hospital
Geography
Location	Pendleton, Salford, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	General
Affiliated university	University of Salford
Services
Emergency department	Level 1 Trauma Centre
Beds	728
History
Founded	1882
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust runs Salford Royal Hospital (formerly known as Hope Hospital), a large hospital in Pendleton, Salford, England. It is one of the top performing hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Salford Royal Hospital has strong affiliations to the University of Manchester and is a teaching hospital of Manchester Medical School. Leading research departments include one of the largest dermatology centres in the United Kingdom, gastroenterology, vascular, trauma and clinical neurosciences (which houses the University of Manchester's 3T MRI scanner).

The hospital opened in 1882 as the Salford Union Infirmary, a hospital for sick paupers, in association with the union workhouse. An Oglala Lakota Native American named 'Surrounded by the Enemy' had his corpse brought here in December 1887. He performed as a stuntsman in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tour at the time of his death. During the Manchester Blitz of the Second World War, the original Salford Royal Infirmary on Chapel Street, Salford was struck by German bombs in June 1941 and 14 nurses died. The current hospital was originally named Hope Hospital (during most of the 20th century, and up until 2008), taking the name of the medieval Hope Hall, demolished in 1956. The formation of the NHS Trust in 1990, and budget cuts nationally towards the National Health Service by a previous Conservative government back in 1994, saw the closure of the original Salford Royal Infirmary on Chapel Street, which was then sold on to private developers who converted the building into luxury apartments. The memorial stone tablet for the nurses killed during the Blitz remains above the original Chapel Street entrance. The trust was originally named Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, but changed its name to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in 2006.