 The tower block, which is 15 storeys and 76 m (250 ft) high, was designed by Louis Adair Roche and opened in January 1986.After maternity services transferred to the Royal Maternity Hospital, the Jubilee Maternity Hospital, which had been based on the Belfast City Hospital site, closed in May 2000.In February 2003 the hospital was designated as one of the nine acute hospitals in the acute hospital network of Northern Ireland on which healthcare would be focused under the government health policy 'Developing Better Services'.