Glencairn – a new facility for adults with complex mental health needs – is now open at Coathill Hospital.
The £4.89m development provides high-quality, modern accommodation including 12 single-bedded rooms with en-suite bathrooms in surroundings specially designed to help promote recovery.
Colin Sloey, Director of North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership, NHS Lanarkshire, said: “The design of Glencairn will provide the best possible care to people with complex needs and help support their recovery and rehabilitation.
“It is another important step forward with the continuing modernisation of mental health services in Lanarkshire and demonstrates that we are delivering on our commitment through the Lanarkshire Mental Health Strategy to provide high quality services in the most appropriate setting.”
Glencairn is one of the key developments that will enable the closure of Hartwoodhill Hospital, in Hartwood, Shotts. It will also replace existing facilities for adults with complex needs at Airbles Road Centre, Motherwell.
An additional mental health facility for patients with complex mental health needs is currently being built at Caird Street, Hamilton. It is due to open around December 2010.
Both developments are part of NHS Lanarkshire’s strategy to provide mental health services in small, purpose-built, community-based units that provide the most appropriate environment to support people’s recovery.
Ann-Marie Newman, Manager of Lanarkshire Links, said, “This is a very exciting prospect for patients who use the service, their carers and their families, that we are moving away from institutionalised care and embracing recovery in the community.
“This offers a huge opportunity for service users and staff, to give and receive care in an environment that helps to focus on their strengths and demonstrate that recovery from mental health illness is possible.
“As a service user and carer organisation we have been involved in all aspects of the new build and to the eventual moving off the Hartwoodhill site and we are very encouraged by the Glencairn facility and what it stands for - hope and recovery.”