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The hospital was founded by surgeons Joseph Sheehan, his brother Jimmy Sheehan, Maurice Neligan and Nuclear Medicine Specialist George Duffy as a private, high-tech hospital offering healthcare to private patients, in 1986. [1] In September 2010, the clinic completed a €100 million extension to the existing hospital facility. [2]
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The hospital was founded by surgeons Joseph Sheehan and Jimmy Sheehan, who had established the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin [1] It was built at a cost of €90m and opened by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, TD on 15 October 2010. [1]
The hospital was founded by surgeons Joseph Sheehan and Jimmy Sheehan, who had established the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin. [2] It was built at a cost of €100 million and opened in June 2004. [3] It brought radiation therapy, cardiac surgery and PET/CT scanning to the west of Ireland for the first time. [3]
The 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. [1] The Group was given responsibility for the following hospitals: [1] [2] Southern Dublin. St. James's Hospital, inner city Dublin
It was subsequently moved to its current site in Elm Park in 1970, and in 1999 was renamed St. Vincent's University Hospital, to highlight its position as a principal teaching hospital of University College Dublin. [6] Along with St. Michael's Hospital and St. Vincent's Private Hospital, it is part of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group (SVHG). [7]
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 Hospital was overseen by Catherine Cummins or Mother Polycarp. [4] Building work, up to the mid-1950s, increased the number of beds and cots from 60 to 260, and new operating suite, X-ray department, and a physiotherapy department were added.