University Hospital Crosshouse


University Hospital Crosshouse is a large district general hospital at Crosshouse near Kilmarnock, Scotland. It provides services to the North Ayrshire and East Ayrshire areas and is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

History

Work on the hospital, which was commissioned to replace the Kilmarnock Infirmary, began on the site in August 1972 with completion expected in May 1977. The contractor, Melville Dundas & Whitson, encountered difficulties with the water supply and ventilation systems and the facility was only officially opened by George Younger, Secretary of State for Scotland, as Crosshouse Hospital in June 1984.
A new maternity unit, which replaced a similar facility at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine was opened in the grounds of the hospital in 2006.
In March 2012 it became University Hospital Crosshouse as a result of a partnership with the University of the West of Scotland.

Services

Crosshouse Hospital is the site of the purpose-built Ayrshire Maternity Unit, which provides maternity services for the whole of NHS Ayrshire & Arran. The maternity unit has 51 inpatient beds, with a special care baby unit and neonatal intensive care unit on-site. The unit sees around 4,000 deliveries per annum.

Resuscitation DVD

In 2009, NHS Ayrshire and Arran produced a DVD for Bliss, the special care baby charity, to help train parents in infant resuscitation.