Nuttall Memorial Hospital

of the eminent private hospitals in Jamaica and the Caribbean.” Today, Nuttall Memorial Hospital is in the midst of those renovations with plans to make it the area’s destination for medical care. Half of the maternity wards’ rooms have already been refurbished and they have recently resurrected a six-room private wing on the general ward which had been closed for the past decade. Additional renovations also include sprucing up another six-room private wing on the general ward that was originally built in 1952. “Then we are going to deal with the administrative block and give the taste and the ambience of the place a facelift,” says Levers. The renovations come just in time for Nuttall Memorial’s 98th anniversary this year. The hospital first opened its doors on December 7, 1923 and was named after Anglican Archbishop Enos Nuttall – a 19th century Christian leader and humanitarian renowned for his work NUTTALL MEMOR I AL HOSP I TAL in Jamaica and the West Indies. Operating originally as a nursing home, the hospital expanded its services over the years to become a private general hospital in its own right. The facility is owned by the Anglican Church of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, which purchased 12-acres of land in 1921 from a British legislator. Nuttall Memorial presently operates as a full general hospital and offers surgical procedures, along with maternity care, X-ray and radiology services, long-term nursing home services, accident and emergency services, as well as a pharmacy. The hospital also operates “Smart Partnerships” with tenants who rent space in the facility for medical related purposes. With these partnerships, tenants not only get a space to work from, they also get full promotional efforts from Nuttall. Partnerships include a dialysis unit and soon-to-be ambulatory services, offering services they may not otherwise be able to provide.