Falkirk Community Hospital
NHS Forth Valley
Original building, Falkirk Royal Infirmary
Location within Falkirk
Geography
Location	Falkirk, Scotland
Coordinates	55°59′52″N 3°47′30″W / 55.9977°N 3.7917°W / 55.9977; -3.7917
Organisation
Care system	NHS Scotland
Funding	Scottish Government
Type	Public hospital
Services
Emergency department	No
History
Opened	1882
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Falkirk Community Hospital is a community hospital in Falkirk, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Forth Valley.

The hospital has its origins in a cottage hospital completed in 1882.^[1] A new hospital designed by William John Smith Gibson was built and opened by Prince George, Duke of Kent as the Falkirk Royal Infirmary in 1932.^[1] Emergency medical scheme huts were built on the site during the Second World War.^[1] Additions included the Falkirk Ward completed in 1966 and the Windsor Unit completed in the late 1980s.^[1] After many of the services were transferred to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital, the Falkirk Royal Infirmary was downgraded to the status of community hospital in 2010.^[2] The minor injury unit, which treated emergency cases of a non life-threatening nature, closed in July 2011.^[3]

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