| Bruntsfield Hospital | |
| Org/Group: | NHS Lothian |
| Region: | Edinburgh |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
| Emergency: | No |
| Founded: | 1878 |
| Closed: | 1989 |
| Map Type: | Scotland Edinburgh |
Bruntsfield Hospital was a women's hospital based in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The hospital had its origins in public dispensary opened by Sophia Jex-Blake at 73 Grove Street in September 1878.[1] It moved to 6 Grove Street, a building large enough to provide in-patient services, as the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children in 1885.[1]
When Jex-Blake retired and moved away in 1899, the trustees acquired her house, Bruntsfield Lodge, and fitted it out as an 18-bed women's hospital.[1] [2] The hospital committee was led by well-connected women active in various social reform projects such as Flora Stevenson.[3]
In 1910 the hospital merged with "The Hospice", a small maternity home which had been established by Elsie Inglis and the Medical Women's Club at 11 George Square some eleven years previously.[2] A new ward block, designed by Arthur Forman Balfour Paul, was officially opened by Queen Mary in July 1911.[2] The hospital was joined the National Health Service in 1948 and closed in 1989.[2] The building was then converted for residential use and is now known as Greenhill Court.[4]