The hospital has its origins in the Kincardineshire Joint Isolation Hospital which was designed by Brown & Watt and opened in August 1903.[1][2][3] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and incorporated the James Mowat Nursing Home, which had been located in an adjacent private house, in 1961.[3]
In the mid-1990s, NHS Grampian decided to replace the hospital with a modern facility and the new community hospital was opened on the site in 1998.[4] A new renal unit was added in spring 2018.[5]
A befriending service was established at the hospital in 2013 matching older patients ready to be discharged, but lacking confidence to return home, with a volunteer befriender. The volunteers then visit the older patients regularly in hospital and at home after discharge, offering on-going emotional and practical support. Local GPs reported the service had improved the overall health and wellbeing of their patients and reduced the number of medically unnecessary GP visits.[7]
