Foresterhill is an area in the

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. It is the site of the city's main hospitals (

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) is the largest hospital in the Grampian area, located on the Foresterhill site in Aberdeen, Scotland. ARI is a teaching hospital with around 900 inpatient beds, offering tertiary care for a population of over 600, ...

, the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital and the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital), as well as the medical school and

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departments of the

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. It is the largest hospital complex in

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. Foresterhill is situated at the highest point in the city, a site identified by

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Matthew Hay in 1900. He had the vision of an integrated medical campus, with a combined hospital and medical school for the City of Aberdeen. The site has its own helicopter landing site due to the hospitals' roles as

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hospitals for the North of Scotland and the rurality of

Grampian Grampian ( gd, Roinn a' Mhonaidh) was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The region t ...

as a catchment area, plus this is the primary emergency hospital for the offshore industries.

Hospitals at Foresterhill

* Aberdeen Maternity Hospital *

* Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital

Buildings at Foresterhill

Notable university buildings

*Institute of Applied Health Sciences * Institute of Medical Sciences * Medico-Chirurgical Hall *Polwarth Building — main building of Aberdeen Medical School * Suttie Centre — Teaching & Learning Centre * Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health

Other buildings

*Blood Transfusion Centre — run by the

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*Central Stores Complex *Foresterhill Health Centre *National Hyperbaric Centre *Anchor Centre for haematology, oncology and radiotherapy is on site but will be open in 2023. Image:Aberdeen Royal Infirmary main.jpg, The main entrance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Image:Aberdeen Royal Infirmary med.jpg, Medical wards at the Infirmary Image:RoyalAberdeenChildrensHospital(ValVannet)May2005.jpg, The Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital

External links

Map of Foresterhill
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References

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