The hospital, which is a two-storey building, and the Fermoy Unit, which provides mental health services, opened in 1980. In February 1998 the Queen Mother was taken to the hospital after she fractured her hip at nearby Sandringham, before being transferred to King Edward VII's Hospital in London. The Arthur Levin Day Surgery Centre was opened by the Queen on 11 January 1999. Also in January 1999, the Queen Mother was again taken to the hospital after a series of nosebleeds, where they cauterised her nose.