Royal Cornhill Hospital
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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Royal Cornhill Hospital
| Org/Group = NHS Grampian
| Image = Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen (geograph 2824548).jpg
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| Caption = Royal Cornhill Hospital
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| Location = Cornhill Road, Aberdeen
| Region =
| State = Scotland
| Country = UK
| HealthCare = NHS
| Type = Specialist
| Speciality = Psychiatric hospital
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| Emergency = No
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| Founded = 1800
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| Website = [http://www.nhsgrampian.org/nhsgrampian/gra_display_hospital.jsp?pContentID=407&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show Hospital website]
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| map_type =Scotland Aberdeen
| map_caption=Shown in Aberdeen
| coordinates={{Coord|57.1542|-2.1164|display=inline,title}}
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Royal Cornhill Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Westburn Road, Aberdeen, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian.
History
The hospital was founded as the Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum in 1800.{{cite web |url=http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=Calms&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27grhb%202%27%29 |title=Collection: GB 1105: NHS Grampian Archives |publisher=Aberdeen University |website=calms.abdn.ac.uk |accessdate=15 December 2016 |archive-date=3 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503142052/http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=Calms&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27grhb%202%27%29 |url-status=dead }} The city's dancing master, Francis Peacock, donated all the funds from the profits of his 1805 book on dancing to the asylum{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=James|title=The Scots Musical Museum|date=1853|publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons|page=126|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R2EVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR126}} and an enlarged facility designed by Archibald Simpson opened in 1818.{{cite web|url=https://historic-hospitals.com/gazetteer/aberdeen/|title=Royal Cornhill Hospital|date=26 April 2015|publisher=Historic Hospitals|accessdate=22 January 2019|archive-date=23 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223073532/https://historic-hospitals.com/gazetteer/aberdeen/|url-status=live}}
It was renamed the Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1852 and a new hospital for sick and acute cases was built to the north of the existing facility in 1896. Pavilions for the treatment of tuberculosis were added in the 1920s and the facility became the Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital in 1933. It suffered from bomb damage, which resulted in four fatalities, in 1943 during the Second World War. The facility joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became the Royal Cornhill Hospital in 1964. It was completely redeveloped in the early 1990s and the new modernised facilities re-opened in 1994.
In 2013 the Health and Safety Executive issued an official warning that risk assessments at the hospital for patients in danger of self harming were insufficient, after three suicides.{{cite news|title=Royal Cornhill deaths: Hospital had 'insufficient' risk assessment|url=http://news.stv.tv/north/234058-royal-cornhill-deaths-hospital-had-insufficient-risk-assessment/|accessdate=24 August 2015|publisher=STV|date=25 July 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095903/http://news.stv.tv/north/234058-royal-cornhill-deaths-hospital-had-insufficient-risk-assessment/|url-status=live}}
In 2015 proposals were put forward to redevelop part of the site which was surplus to requirements for residential use.{{cite news|title=Revised housing plans for Royal Cornhill Hospital approved|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/489805/revised-housing-plans-royal-cornhill-hospital-approved/|accessdate=24 August 2015|publisher=Press and Journal|date=13 February 2015|archive-date=22 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122145005/https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/489805/revised-housing-plans-royal-cornhill-hospital-approved/|url-status=live}}
References
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Category:Hospitals in Aberdeen
Category:1800 establishments in Scotland