Rush Green Hospital

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Rush Green Hospital was a hospital in Rush Green, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London. It opened on 4 April 1901 as the Romford Isolation Hospital to treat infectious diseases such as smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid. The project was approved in 1898 and was run by the Romford Joint Hospital Board, made up of Romford Rural District Council and Romford Urban District Council. The hospital stood in the Dagenham parish of Romford Rural District, which became Dagenham Urban District in 1926.

In 1939 it was renamed Rush Green Emergency Hospital during the Emergency Hospital Service, and it joined the National Health Service in 1948, becoming Rush Green Hospital. A maternity block opened on 19 October 1968, transferring beds from Oldchurch Hospital; it was built by Wates at a cost of £750,000. The hospital closed in 1995, with maternity services moved to Harold Wood Hospital. The site has since been redeveloped for housing, a nursing home and a medical centre.

The hospital also ran its own radio service. Radio Rush Green started in 1969, later becoming Hospital Radio 174, and it expanded to Oldchurch Hospital in 1985. After the move in 1993, the service continued as Oldchurch Radio and eventually became Bedrock Radio.