Udston Hospital
| Udston Hospital | |
|---|---|
| NHS Lanarkshire | |
 Udston Hospital | |
  Shown in South Lanarkshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Farm Road, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°46′40″N 4°04′49″W / 55.7777°N 4.0803°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Community |
| History | |
| Opened | 1919 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Udston Hospital is a health facility in Farm Road, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire.
History
The hospital was created by converting a 19th-century mansion built for Lewis Potter, a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, into an infectious diseases hospital in May 1919.[1] It was expanded in 1930 and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it was expanded again in the late 1990s when a large modern extension was built on the site.[1] One of the wards used for elderly patients who were awaiting transfer to a nursing home or a package of homecare, known as Douglas Ward, was closed in 2018.[2][3]
References
- ^ a b "Udston Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Hundreds back campaign to save Udston Hospital's Douglas Ward from closure". Daily Record. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Families of patients in Udston hospital slam NHS Lanarkshire for 'lack of communication'". Daily Record. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.