 The hospital was established as a step-down unit (for people discharged from a district hospital but who still need hospital based rehabilitation) at a cost of £700,000 in 2002.The in-patient facilities at the hospital were closed for the foreseeable future in October 2017 because of staffing shortages.The hospital, which has 40 inpatient beds, offers facilities which include a Clinical Assessment and Treatment Unit, which cares for patients who need a short span of acute treatment and who would otherwise have needed to go to Musgrove Park Hospital; an X-ray department; a Community Rehabilitation Unit, which provides physiotherapy and occupational therapy services; an outpatients department, for visiting consultants and specialist clinicians providing speech and language therapy, pain clinic, haematology clinic, Parkinsons clinics as well as elderly care; and a musculoskeletal clinic for back, shoulder and knee problems.