 The facility was renamed Daisy Hill Hospital in the 1930s and a modern medical block was added in 1973.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'.An allocation for modernisation and development of facilities at the hospital was included in the £2.9 billion investment programme announced for health and social services over the following ten years, in the Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland, in December 2005.