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DAWN celebrates £16million maternity unit opening at Crosshouse
30 June 2009

Dawn Construction this week joined NHS staff and mums-to-be to celebrate the official opening of a new £16million maternity unit at Crosshouse Hospital.

The industry leading construction specialist with an impressive track record in healthcare, marked the official opening of the Ayrshire Maternity Unit only weeks after winning an NHS Frameworks Scotland scheme to deliver a £100million community healthcare facility as part of the RD Health Consortium on the site of the old maternity unit in Irvine.

The 57-bed Ayrshire Maternity Unit at Crosshouse was designed to provide integrated childbirth services to meet the needs of mothers and their newborn babies across Ayrshire and Arran and caters for 3,500 births each year including 7,000 in-patients and 4,500 day cases.

The new facility includes an integrated birth suite incorporating delivery rooms, theatres, a high dependency unit and neonatal unit and also has immediate access to adult intensive care as well as laboratory and blood transfusion services.

Dawn’s innovative approach has helped cement its place at the forefront of the sector, with a successful track record of delivering small to large-scale projects in healthcare and education across the country.

Current projects include the construction of the Shawfair Park Hospital in Edinburgh for Spire Healthcare and the upcoming North Ayrshire Community Hospital as well as an integrated community and healthcare Resource Centre in Coatbridge for North Lanarkshire Council and NHS Lanarkshire.

Eddie Robertson, construction director of Dawn Construction, said: “It is marvellous to have played a part in creating a new facility which will bring new lives into the world for families across Ayrshire including those of our own employees for generations to come.

“Working closely in partnership with NHS we have developed our expertise in the healthcare sector through this valuable addition to Crosshouse, and we are looking forward to strengthening our relationship as the Community Hospital plans develop.”

Dr Nivon Russell, who was a consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist for 22 years, said: “Our primary aim is to provide a safe and effective service for mothers and babies at Crosshouse from pregnancy planning through to post-natal care.

“The new Maternity Unit not only enables us to build on the excellent standards of care our doctors and midwives have maintained over the years, but it also reflects our long term commitment to providing integral services as close as possible to home for people in Ayrshire.”