[2] The hospital is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The hospital has its origins in a general dispensary in central Paisley which opened in 1786 and became a house of recovery in 1805.

[3] A new facility financed by William Barbour and designed by Thomas Graham Abercrombie was completed at Calside in July 1896.

[4] In the early 1980s it was decided to create a modern hospital on the site of the old Riccartsbar Hospital in Craw Road and the new facility was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in May 1988.

[9] It contains the only consultant-led maternity unit for the upper Clyde area, after the maternity wards at Inverclyde Royal Hospital and Vale of Leven Hospital became midwife-led in 2003.