Kello Hospital is a health facility in John's Loan, Biggar,

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, Scotland. It is managed by

NHS Lanarkshire NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health care of more than 652,000 people living within the subdivisions of Scotland, council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in Scotland, making it the third largest health board in the countr ...

History

The facility, which was financed by a legacy from Simon Linton Kello, a local bank manager, and his sister, was completed in November 1926. It was expanded in 1937 and, after joining the

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in 1948, it was extended again in 1967. A significant number of patients were transferred from Lockart Hospital when that hospital was unable to recruit any clinical staff in 2016.

References

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