Ugie Hospital is a small hospital in

Peterhead Peterhead (; gd, Ceann Phàdraig, sco, Peterheid ) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's biggest settlement (the city of Aberdeen itself not being a part of the district), with a population of 18,537 at the 2011 Census. ...

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, providing

psychogeriatric Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics or psychiatry of old age, is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, ...

services. It is managed by

NHS Grampian NHS Grampian is an NHS board which forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland. It is responsible for proving health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray ...

History

The foundation stone for the facility was laid in June 1905 and it opened as the local infectious diseases hospital in 1907. In 2004, the Ravenscraig geriatric ward at the hospital was closed to new admissions because of an outbreak of

MRSA Methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' (MRSA) is a group of Gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of ''Staphylococcus aureus''. MRSA is responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. ...

among the elderly patients. Eight of the 13 patients were found to be carriers of the bacteria, although none of the patients was actually infected. In August 2005 Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership issued a consultation document on Older People’s Services, Maternity Services and Diagnostic and Treatment Services, one of which would have allowed "the relocation of all psychogeriatric services out of Ugie Hospital and enable it to be closed". After certain services transferred to

Fraserburgh Hospital Fraserburgh Hospital is a community hospital in Lochpots Road, Fraserburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian. History The facility was established as an infectious diseases hospital in 1905. It joined the National Health Service in 1948 ...

, the Buchanhaven Ward at Ugie Hospital was closed in May 2011.

References

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