[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.