Wester Moffat Hospital | |
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NHS Lanarkshire | |
Geography | |
Location | Towers Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°52′07″N3°56′29″W / 55.8686°N 3.9413°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Speciality | Care for the elderly |
History | |
Opened | 1929 ( as a hospital ) |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Wester Moffat Hospital is a health facility in Towers Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire. It is a Grade B listed building. [1]
The building, which was designed by Charles Wilson [2] in the Scottish baronial style for William Towers-Clark, a solicitor, was completed in 1862. [3] It was converted for medical use and re-opened as a sanatorium in January 1929. [3] The facility joined the National Health Service in 1948. [3] Rifleman James Morris, a soldier from the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was admitted to the hospital after a car crash in 1962 and spent 54 years there without recovering before his death in 2017. [4]
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