It remained there until the first phase of the present hospital was completed as part of Aberdeen’s Joint Hospital Scheme.

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Just as the Infirmary at Woolmanhill was replaced nearly a century later by the Foresterhill complex, the Woolmanhill building replaced an earlier infirmary built a century before.FONTHILL MATERNITY HOME, 60 Fonthill Road, ABERDEENA domestic house was taken over by Aberdeen Corporation in 1945 and opened as a maternity unit in 1946. The original buildings on the site form an impressive group which have retained many of their contemporary features. If you contact Fiona Musk, the archivist for NHS Grampian Archives, she would be able to answer your question more fully, and look at Forresterhill’s patient records for that time. It is perhaps worth noting that the Marylebone hospital referred to in London was in fact a workhouse infirmary.

Main Entrance Rousay Drive leading to Lang Stracht (A944

In 1931 Wellwood House at Cults opened under the direction of the asylum for early and transient uncertified patients (see separate entry below). Horizons Rehabilitation Centre accept referrals from professional colleagues in health and social care within the Grampian area, and aim to provide community-based, multi-disciplinary programmes of rehabilitation, based on service users’ own goals. When the city boundaries were extended in 1934, Aberdeen Corporation took over the hospital and carried out extensive renovations, reopening it in 1937. Before the First World War plans were considered for a new hospital on a new site and an appeal made for funds. They work closely with colleagues throughout neurological rehabilitation services and have dedicated support from Rehabilitation Consultants.If you are unsure about anything whileat the hospital, please ask a member ofstaff, they will be happy to help. Although the intentions were laudable that led the Corporation to choose concrete, the drawbacks were an exterior and interior that were ‘cold, cheerless and prison‑like, with cement everywhere on the floor, walls, and ceilings’.

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ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL, ABERDEEN (original buildings largely demolished)In 1797 lands at Clerkseat were purchased and a small asylum was opened there in November 1800. The foundation stone was laid on 28 May 1928 by the Prince of Wales and the Hospital was opened on 22 September 1936 by the Duke and Duchess of York. In general, patients who require complex multidisciplinary inpatient neuro-rehabilitation are given higher priority, as they cannot access this anywhere else in Grampian.An adiditonal three acres were purchased and a new building for 150 patients erected, designed by Archibald Simpson . Phased construction from 1979 saw the opening of six 20-bed units in 1981, a new school in 1982 and phase three of the redevelopment completed in 1983. Help promote partnership working between health services, social services and voluntary organisations.