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HPSC produces annual epidemiological reports covering all areas of infectious and communicable disease surveillance carried out in Ireland. It is the designated Competent Body for liaison with European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and is Ireland's national World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) focal point for communicable diseases.
Along with the authorisation to merge the hospitals, the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital Act 1895 provided for expansion of the facilities. A site was purchased on Adelaide Road in 1899 and, once new facilities had been constructed, all patients were transferred from the National Eye Hospital and St. Mark's Hospital on 18 February 1904.
The National Ambulance Service College (NASC) (Irish: Coláiste Náisiúnta an tSeirbhís Otharchairr) was first established in 1986 as the National Ambulance Training School and is based at the organisation's new HQ named the Rivers Building in Tallaght, which also houses the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC). 999/112 emergency calls are processed here also, as well as a second base ...
The HSE adopted a regional structure (HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster, HSE Dublin North East, HSE South and HSE West). [3] A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD, in May 2013, as part of a restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care: [4] [5]
The company is a subsidiary of Amplifon, the worldwide leader in hearing care and hearing aid retail based in Milan, Italy. [1] Miracle-Ear's U.S. headquarters are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [2] As of 2023 it has more than 1,500 locations in the United States, [2] and it is the best-known hearing aid brand in the U.S.
The hospital, which is a teaching hospital for the University College Dublin, has 997 beds, [7] along with 206 Day Beds and 15 Operating Theatres. [8] It contains a negative-pressure ventilation ward which houses the National Bio-Terrorism Unit, [9] and is the National Centre in Ireland for various services. [10]
The Dublin Brain Bank, a research facility for post-mortem storage and examination of brain tissue, opened at Beaumont Hospital in October 2008. [5] A new cystic fibrosis unit opened at the hospital in December 2010 [ 6 ] and a new radiation therapy unit for cancer treatment was established at the hospital in 2012.
Seamus Heaney (recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature) and his wife were driven here after Heaney had a stroke in 2006. Bill Clinton - in Ireland at the time for 2006 Ryder Cup in County Kildare (just west of Dublin and many hours south of Letterkenny) - heard about Heaney's 'episode', as Heaney himself described it.