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 Morrison Construction is a large construction business, which was acquired by Galliford Try in 2006. History Morrison Construction was founded by Alex Morrison in Tain, Scotland in 1948. Although ownership of the company would pass through severa ...

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 {{UK-hospital-stub