Whitehills Hospital is a health facility in Station Road in Forfar, Angus, Scotland. Formerly an isolation hospital and then a geriatric hospital, in its current form, it is a community hospital known as the Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre. It is managed by NHS Tayside.
Whitehills Hospital | |
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NHS Tayside | |
![]() The new Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre | |
Geography | |
Location | Station Road, Forfar, Scotland |
Coordinates | 56°39′03″N 2°52′19″W / 56.6509°N 2.8720°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS Scotland |
Type | General |
History | |
Opened | 1901 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
History
editThe original facility on the site, which was designed by McArthy and Watson as an isolation hospital,[1] opened as the Forfarshire County Fever Hospital in 1901.[2] After joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became a geriatric facility known as Whitehills Hospital in 1949.[2] A modern community hospital known as the Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre, which was commissioned to replace the aging Forfar Infirmary, was built on the site and opened in 2005.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "McArthy and Watson". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ a b c "Whitehills Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Whitehills Hospital, Forfar". Aberdeenshire Council. Retrieved 9 March 2020.