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The Group was given responsibility for the following hospitals: [1] [2] Southern Dublin. St. James's Hospital, inner city Dublin; Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, inner city Dublin; Tallaght University Hospital; Midlands counties. Naas General Hospital; Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore
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The origins of the hospital lie in a poorhouse initiated when Dublin Corporation paid £300 to acquire the site in 1603. [3] The war between William III and James II intervened and the project was abandoned until Mary, Duchess of Ormonde, wife of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde laid a foundation stone in 1703. [3]
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The hospital provides acute services for the population of around 200,000 people in County Kildare and western parts of County Wicklow. [4] The hospital currently has 243 patient beds which include 18 day service beds.
The hospital was officially opened by Seán T. O'Kelly, Minister of Local Government and Public Health, as Westmeath County Hospital on 27 April 1936. [2] [3] It evolved to become the General Hospital, Mullingar and benefited from major extensions which opened in 1988 and 1994. [4]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) was established by the Health Act 2004 and came into official operation on 1 January 2005. It replaced the ten regional Health Boards, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and a number of other different agencies and organisations.