Deanestor fits out Highlands hospital

Deanestor, which provides furnishings for the healthcare sector, has delivered a hospital fitout undertaking on the new Broadford Neighborhood Hospital on the Isle of Skye as a part of a £40 million improvement by NHS Highland. This funding included the Badenoch & Strathspey Neighborhood Hospital in Aviemore, which opened final yr, which was additionally fitted out by Deanestor.

Constructed by development firm Hub North Scotland and designed by Oberlanders Architects and Rural Design, the 24-bed hospital on Skye includes session and therapy rooms, an emergency division, physiotherapy and occupational remedy, chemotherapy, X-ray and ultrasound, a maternity facility and a renal dialysis unit.

Deanestor supplied free and bespoke fitted furnishings for 142 rooms all through the brand new hospital. This included storage models, medication cupboards, height-adjustable altering benches, bed room wardrobes, foldaway beds in some inpatient rooms, nurse stations and a most important reception desk. Joinery was additionally manufactured and put in by Deanestor for a brand new six-bay suite for chemotherapy and renal sufferers.

Tracy Ligema, undertaking director at NHS Highland, stated: “It is a important milestone within the historical past of Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross. There was a substantial quantity of labor concerned on this course of and we need to thank everybody who has contributed. The brand new hospital will serve the group for a few years to come back and highlights the well being board’s dedication to growing distant and rural well being and social care providers.”

Peter Ramsay, undertaking director for Hub North Scotland, commented: “Broadford Hospital is a improbable well being facility which can deliver large advantages for the communities of Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross. We confronted main challenges progressing development in the course of the Covid pandemic however the assist of all of the companions and the local people ensured we now have delivered a hospital that everybody could be pleased with.”

Date revealed: June 20, 2022