Guy's Hospital, Teaching hospital in Southwark, United Kingdom
Guy's Hospital is a teaching hospital in Southwark, London, where a distinctive Tower Wing rises 34 floors above the cityscape near London Bridge Station. The sprawling campus connects historic Georgian buildings with modern clinical wings around landscaped courtyards and pedestrian walkways.
A wealthy printer opened the hospital in 1721 to admit patients rejected elsewhere, creating a new model of social care. The tower rose in the mid-1970s in response to growing demand for hospital beds in the capital.
The institution carries the name of its 18th-century founder, a bookseller who devoted his fortune to treating people without access to other medical care. Visitors gather in the period chapel before a marble sculpture that recalls this social mission.
The emergency department accepts non-urgent cases daily from 8 AM to 8 PM through the national health system. The entrance sits within walking distance of the underground station and is accessible via footpaths from several directions.
The hospital tower held the global record as the tallest hospital building from 1974 to 1988, shaping a period of change in hospital architecture. It remains one of the tallest medical buildings in Europe and a prominent landmark along the Thames.
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