Florence Nightingale Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Hospitals === Four hospitals in Istanbul are named after Nightingale: Florence Nightingale Hospital in [[Şişli]] (the biggest private hospital in Turkey), Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital in Gayrettepe, European Florence Nightingale Hospital in [[Mecidiyeköy]], and Kızıltoprak Florence Nightingale Hospital in [[Kadıköy]], all belonging to the Turkish Cardiology Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.groupflorence.com/ |title=Group Florence Nightingale |publisher=Groupflorence.com |access-date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509182257/http://www.groupflorence.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2011, an appeal was made for the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary hospital in Derby, England to be named after Nightingale. It was suggested the name could be either Nightingale Community Hospital or Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. The area where the hospital is situated is sometimes referred to as the "Nightingale Quarter".<ref>{{cite news |title=Hospital name campaign will honour Florence |newspaper=Derby Express |date=18 August 2011}}</ref> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 pandemic]], a number of temporary [[NHS Nightingale Hospitals]] were set up in readiness for an expected rise in the number of patients needing critical care. The first was housed in the [[ExCeL London]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilroy |first1=Rebecca |title=New temporary coronavirus hospital in name of Florence Nightingale revealed |url=https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/coronavirus/new-temporary-coronavirus-hospital-in-name-of-florence-nightingale-revealed-24-03-2020/ |access-date=28 March 2020 |work=Nursing Times |date=24 March 2020 |archive-date=28 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328142329/https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/coronavirus/new-temporary-coronavirus-hospital-in-name-of-florence-nightingale-revealed-24-03-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and several others followed across England.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-27/birmingham-nec-and-manchester-central-convention-complex-to-be-converted-into-coronavirus-hospitals/ |title=Two more UK facilities to be converted into 'NHS Nightingale' coronavirus hospitals |date=27 March 2020 |work=[[ITV News]] |access-date=11 May 2020 |archive-date=26 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526201921/https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-27/birmingham-nec-and-manchester-central-convention-complex-to-be-converted-into-coronavirus-hospitals/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Celebrations to mark her bicentenary in 2020, were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and Nightingale's contribution to scientific and statistical analysis of infectious disease and nursing practice may have led to the new temporary hospitals being in her name, in Scotland named the [[NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital|NHS Louisa Jordan]] after a nurse who followed in Nightingale's footsteps in battlefield nursing in [[World War One]].<ref name=":0" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page