Beaumont Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Beaumont) is a large teaching hospital located in Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland. It is managed by RCSI Hospitals[1] - one of the hospital groups established by the Health Service Executive. Its academic partner is the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
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Geography | |
Location | Beaumont, County Dublin, Ireland |
Coordinates | 53°23′28″N 6°13′20″W / 53.391142°N 6.222154°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | HSE |
Type | General |
Affiliated university | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Dublin City University |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 820 |
History | |
Opened | 29 November 1987 |
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Website | www |
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St. Joseph's Hospital (Raheny) is also under the management of the Beaumont Hospital Board.[2]
History
editThe planning for the hospital, which was commissioned to replace the Richmond Surgical Hospital and the Jervis Street Hospital began in 1977.[3] The design was based on the scheme for the Cork University Hospital. It was built at a cost of €52.7 million and was officially opened on 29 November 1987.[3] Beaumont Hospital took over management of St. Joseph's Hospital in Raheny in August 2004.[4]
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.[7]
The Ashlin Centre, a new adult psychiatric facility, was built and opened to patients in 2014.[8]
The new RCSI Smurfit Building was opened on the Beaumont Hospital campus in 2018, built at a cost of €9.5 million.[9][10]
Services
editBeaumont Hospital employs approximately 3,000 staff.[2] It provides 820 beds, of which 631 are in-patient acute beds, while 110 are reserved for acute day cases. A further 10 beds are designated for in-patient psychiatric care.[11]
The hospital provides regional cancer services to the North East Region of the Republic of Ireland and was designated as one of Ireland's eight Cancer Centres of Excellence in 2007.[12] The Smurfit Education & Research Centre, established in 2000, is the principal clinical research centre on the site of Beaumont Hospital.[13]
Beaumont is the principal undergraduate and postgraduate medical training and research centre associated with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with whom it shares its campus.[13] It also provides clinical training for undergraduate nursing students from Dublin City University.[14]
It is the Designated Cancer Centre and the Regional Treatment Centre for Ear, Nose and Throat, and Gastroenterology.[2] It is also the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology, Renal Transplantation, and Cochlear Implantation.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Six hospital groups 'most fundamental reform in decades'". Irish Medical Times. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Beaumont Hospital - Welcome". www.beaumont.ie. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Beaumont Hospital 1987-2017 Recollections at 30 years". Irish Medical Times. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Report of the announced monitoring assessment at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, incorporating St Joseph's Hospital, Dublin" (PDF). Health Information and Quality Authority. 31 October 2013. p. 6. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "What I did today... Dr Mary McElroy Dublin Brain Bank". The Independent. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Beaumont Hospital opens cystic fibrosis unit". RTE. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Two radiation oncology centres opened". RTE. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Garland | Minister Reilly officially opens the Ashlin Centre". www.garlandconsultancy.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Beaumont Hospital -". www.beaumont.ie. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "RCSI Smurfit Building Extension, Beaumont Hospital Campus - ORS | Assigned Certifier". ORS. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Beaumont Hospital Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine voluntary hospital governed by Hospital Board and the Irish Health Service Executive
- ^ "Ahern says care is top priority in cancer plan". Irish Times. 21 November 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Smurfit Building, Beaumont Hospital". Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Clinical Placements Information". Dublin City University. Retrieved 4 May 2019.