Patients were evacuated from a hospital wing when a water pipe burst.
Water flooded the third floor of Southlands Hospital, Shoreham, before leaking into the second and first floors below.
Patients were evacuated from six private rooms.
Fire crews from Shoreham and Hove were called to the hospital on Friday at about 5.20pm and spent two hours at the scene.
Firefighters pumped the water out to allow the damaged pipe to be repaired.
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