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Udston Hospital

Coordinates: 55°46′40″N 4°04′49″W / 55.7777°N 4.0803°W / 55.7777; -4.0803
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Udston Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire
Udston Hospital
Udston Hospital is located in South Lanarkshire
Udston Hospital
Shown in South Lanarkshire
Geography
LocationFarm Road, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Coordinates55°46′40″N 4°04′49″W / 55.7777°N 4.0803°W / 55.7777; -4.0803
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeCommunity
History
Opened1919
Links
ListsHospitals in Scotland

Udston Hospital is a health facility in Farm Road, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire.

History

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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

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  1. ^ a b "Udston Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Hundreds back campaign to save Udston Hospital's Douglas Ward from closure". Daily Record. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Families of patients in Udston hospital slam NHS Lanarkshire for 'lack of communication'". Daily Record. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.