NHS Taysides video about 72 years of NHS Scotland revealed that the building I work in was a Geriatric Unit at the hospital it used to be.
It appears on maps mid-50s which fits with the opening date in 1957
Further digging reveals it was one of the earliest Specialist Geriatric units in Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Taylor_Brown"I was also very happy to hear the noble Lord, Lord Craigton, speak about the value of the geriatric assessment units. As he knows, there is in operation in Maryfield Hospital, under Dr. Taylor Brown, a most effective unit of that kind. He, I think, like me, has seen it in operation, and it is amazing the extent to which old people are enabled to return to a normal life by an application of the special techniques which have been discovered because such a unit was set up in the Eastern Region. I know that before long it will, in fact, be standard practice everywhere."
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1962/mar/29/hospital-plan-for-scotlandAnd seemingly one of the major steps to "care in the community"
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1957/jul/24/scotland-health-servicesThis work of restoring old people to health and activity is already being carried out by geriatric units at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, and at Maryfield Hospital. Dundee. The latest figures from Maryfield will, I know, interest the Committee. They show that some 53 per cent, of old people admitted—and we all know what it used to be like when an old person was admitted to hospital—were sufficiently restored to return home or to be discharged to residential accommodation. As several speakers have said, when old people are discharged to their own homes, they can receive very valuable assistance from the home helps service, and I am very glad to be able to tell, hon. Members that this year for the first time every—and I repeat every—Scottish local health authority is operating a home help service scheme of this kind. It is best, of course, for old people to live in their own homes——
The general belief here has been that this bit was the nurses home
So those ghosts people claim to see...