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Section 1: About the Organisation
Overview
St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group, (incorporating St. Vincent’s University
Hospital, St. Vincent’s Private Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital)
provides acute general care serving the South East region of Dublin
and surrounding areas. A tertiary referral service is also provided for
patients both regionally and nationally, and an extensive range of
general and specialist services including a number of national centres
of specialisation.
St. Vincent’s University Hospital is the acute general hospital of the
group, with St Michael’s Hospital providing local community services
and support and specialised services in conjunction with St. Vincent’s
University Hospital. St. Vincent’s Private Hospital is inextricably linked
with the Group providing private healthcare to patients and facilities
for consultants within St. Vincent’s University Hospital for private
practice. This was a strategic decision made by the shareholders so
that the Hospitals in the group would come together to complement
each other.
St. Vincent’s University Hospital.
St. Vincent’s Hospital was founded by the Religious Sisters of Charity
and established at St. Stephen’s Green in 1834. The hospital was
transferred to its present site in Elm Park in 1970 and subsequently
changed its title to St. Vincent’s University Hospital in 1999.
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