It offered a range of services including neurology, care of older people, and a child and family centre.

Located within the hospital grounds is the regional child and adolescent mental health inpatients unit, Beechcroft.

Over the subsequent two years the site was developed and on 30 September 1897 Forster Green Hospital for Consumption and Chest Diseases opened.

Before the discovery of antibiotics the main methods used to treat TB were; exposure to fresh air, rest, and surgery to remove infected parts of the lung- this was seen as a last effort to control the disease.

[5] Over the next 20 years, the hospital steadily grew in size and in 1925 the first x-ray machine was acquired for the hospital- this was used for the diagnosis of thoracic disease and also to help guide treatment.

Three years later in 1958 a newly built administration unit was opened, this helped better organise the daily workings of the hospital- this building was acquired by the Belfast Trust Dietetics Service in 2008.