Leverndale Hospital is a mental health facility at

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, Scotland. It is managed by

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. The , which has been taken out of use, is

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History

The hospital, which was designed by Malcolm Stark in the

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, opened as the Govan District

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in September 1895.Leverndale Hospital (Glasgow Caledonian University, Research Collections, Heatherbank Museum of Social Work, 1975)
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for infectious diseases a short distance to the west within the boundaries of Paisley, which was constructed in the 1930s). It joined the

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in 1948 as Hawkhead Mental Hospital; Hawkhead House was demolished in the 1950s. The facility's name was changed to Leverndale Hospital in 1964, and new units for psycho‑geriatric patients were added in the mid-1970s. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and some of the substantial older buildings, including the Kelburne Unit and , were taken out of use in the late 20th century and then converted into apartments between 2003 and 2006. Modern medical facilities built on the site to replace the older buildings include a new acute admissions unit completed in summer 2013.

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