East Lothian Community Hospital is a hospital located on Station Road,
Haddington, East Lothian
The Royal Burgh of Haddington (, ) is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the main administrative, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian. It lies about east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the six ...
, Scotland. The hospital is operated by
NHS Lothian
NHS Lothian is one of the 14 regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in the City of Edinburgh (council area), City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian council areas. Its headquarters are at Mainpoint 102 West ...
.
History
The Roodlands General Hospital was built as an infectious diseases hospital for the local area and opened around 1906.
It became the County Infectious Diseases Hospital in 1930 and joined the
National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
as Roodlands General Hospital in 1948.
A major redevelopment of the site to create a modern community hospital, known as East Lothian Community Hospital, was undertaken by
Morrison Construction at a cost of £70 million, starting in January 2017. The new East Lothian Community Hospital opened in October 2020.
References
Hospitals in East Lothian
NHS Scotland hospitals
NHS Lothian
Haddington, East Lothian
2020 establishments in Scotland
Hospitals established in 2020
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