Two new centres paid for with a £1m grant from the Doughty Family Foundation are due to open at Newark Hospital next month.
The grants were made in memory of former nurse Mrs Mercia Doughty.
Mrs Doughty, the mother of businessman Mr Nigel Doughty, who is the chairman of Nottingham Forest FC, worked as a nurse at the old Newark Hospital on London Road and then transferred to the current one on Boundary Road.
She died in Beaumond House Community Hospice, Newark, in May 2008.
Her husband, Mr Ted Doughty, still lives in Newark and is the vice-president of the Newark Hospital League of Friends.
The money has been used to pay for a pre-operative assessment centre and extended endoscopy centre. Both will be named after Mrs Doughty.
Daffodil
It is hoped that they will be ready to be officially opened on September 5.
They will each have a daffodil design as one of Mrs Doughty’s favourite poems was Wordsworth’s Daffodils.
The assessment centre will have four consulting rooms and a spacious waiting area. The extended endoscopy centre will ensure patients have privacy and dignity.
The chairman of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust, which runs Newark Hospital, Tracy Doucet, has been closely involved with the project and said that everyone at the hospital and the trust was thrilled with the donation from the foundation.
She said: “The names of both centres along with the inspiring daffodil design are a tribute to Mercia who worked exceedingly hard for many years at both the old and current hospital.
“Both these facilities will play an important role in improving patient care in Newark and are of real benefit to the community.”
