University Hospital Crosshouse, known locally as Crosshouse Hospital or simply Crosshouse is a large district general hospital at

Crosshouse Crosshouse is a village in East Ayrshire about west of Kilmarnock. It grew around the cross-roads of the main Kilmarnock to Irvine road, once classified as the A71 but now reduced in status to the B7081, with a secondary road (the B751) running ...

near Kilmarnock,

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. It provides services to the North Ayrshire and East Ayrshire areas and is managed by

NHS Ayrshire and Arran NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 2004. It has a responsibility to provide health and social care to almost 400,000 people with an operating budget of around £700 million (for 2013� ...

. The hospital houses the national Cochlear Implant Service.

History

Work on the hospital, which was commissioned to replace the

Kilmarnock Infirmary Kilmarnock Infirmary was a general hospital in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. History Kilmarnock Infirmary opened in 1868 in Portland Street, to meet the needs of the growing population in Kilmarnock. The original building was designed by the prolific ...

, 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

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, Secretary of State for Scotland, as Crosshouse Hospital in June 1984. A new maternity unit, which replaced a similar facility at

Ayrshire Central Hospital Ayrshire Central Hospital, also known as Irvine Central Hospital, is an NHS hospital in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History Formation The hospital is constructed on land which was formerly part of ...

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

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. On 4 February 2021 the hospital was placed into a police lockdown due to "serious incidents" at the hospital and around Kilmarnock with all ambulance and hospital traffic diverted to

University Hospital Ayr University Hospital Ayr is a general hospital on the outskirts of Ayr, Scotland. It covers a catchment area of approximately 100,000 people in South Ayrshire and is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The hospital, which replaced the A ...

. A member of staff was dead in the hospital car park, the root cause of the murder being a family rather than hospital matter.

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.

Emergency Department (ED)

The Emergency Department, previously known as Accident and Emergency (A&E), unit at University Hospital Crosshouse opened in 2004 and serves both East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire, with main North Ayrshire hospital

not having its own designated emergency department for Irvine and the surrounding population. The Emergency Department specialises in bone injuries, emergencies, eye injuries, child paediatrics, tele-medecine and carries out x-ray examinations for patients.

Ayrshire Maternity Unit

Ayrshire Maternity Unit was opened within the grounds of University Hospital Crosshouse in 2006, replacing the former maternity facilities at

. The Ayrshire Maternity Unit is the main facility within Ayrshire and all three

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Ayrshire health boards providing maternity services.

Resuscitation DVD

In 2009, NHS Ayrshire and Arran produced a DVD for

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, the special care baby charity, to help train parents in infant resuscitation.

References

External links

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Inspection reports
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