It is managed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.

The facilities has its origins in a cottage hospital established by the conversion of a house on Steamer Quay Road in the 19th century.

[1] This was replaced by a new purpose-built cottage hospital built by Thomas Brook on Bridgetown Hill in the 1890s.

[1][2] The Bridgetown Hill facility eventually became decrepit and, after the hospital closed in the early 1990s, the site was developed as Varian Court.

[1] The hospital was briefly closed because of the discovery of the legionella bacteria in January 2019.