- Gartnavel Royal Hospital
Gartnavel Royal Hospital is a mental health facility based in the west end of
Glasgow ,Scotland . It provides inpatient psychiatric care for the population of the West of the City; covering Hillhead, Partick, Scotstoun, Yoker, Clydebank, Drumchapel, Bearsden and Milngavie. It also houses the regional adolescent psychiatric unit and one of 3 Intensive Psychiatric Units within the city of Glasgow. Originally opened as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum in 1814 in theCowcaddens area of Glasgow [cite web | url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/feb2006.html | title=Book of the Month February 2006 | author=Sarah Hepworth | date=February 2006 | publisher=Glasgow University Library | accessdate=2006-11-28] , it became the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1824cite web | url=http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb13.html | title=Records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland | author=Alistair Tough | date=23 July 1998 | publisher=Greater Glasgow NHS Board Archive | accessdate=2006-11-28] .The facility moved to new premises in
Gartnavel designed by Charles Wilson in 1843 [cite web | url=http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSG00023 | title=Gartnavel Asylum | publisher=The Glasgow Story | accessdate=2006-11-28] , becoming the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1931 and the Gartnavel Royal Hospital in 1963.In December 1972, the
Gartnavel General Hospital opened on the same site [cite web | url=http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s765_3&newsid=939&back=s8_1 | title=Gartnavel Gala To Mark 30 Great Years | date=October 14 ,2003 | publisher=NHS Greater Glasgow | accessdate=2006-11-29] .As of 2006, some of the buildings are unused. [cite web | url=http://urbandesertion.squarespace.com/gartnavel/ | title=Gartnavel | date=August 2006 | publisher=Urban Desertion | accessdate=2006-11-28] [cite web | url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrphotos/sets/1061528/ | title=Gartnavel | date=September 2005 | publisher=Flickr | accessdate=2006-12-01] The modernisation of Gartnavel was completed in 2007 and today serves a significant population of Glaswegian inpatients. [cite web | url=http://www.pfcu.scot.nhs.uk/Projects/Gartnavel%20Project%20Brief.pdf | title=Gartnavel Royal Hospital | date=October 2006 | publisher=Scottish Executive Health Department | accessdate=2006-11-28] .
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