Connolly Hospital

Connolly Hospital
Health Service Executive
Main entrance to Connolly Hospital
Connolly Hospital is located in Dublin
Connolly Hospital
Shown in Dublin
Geography
LocationBlanchardstown, Fingal, Ireland
Coordinates53°23′19″N 6°22′07″W / 53.388541°N 6.368649°W / 53.388541; -6.368649
Organisation
Care systemHSE
TypeGeneral
Affiliated universityRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds407
History
Opened1955
Links
Websitewww.connollyhospital.ie

The Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown (Irish: Ospidéal Uí Chonghaile Baile Bhlainséir) is a teaching hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland. It is managed by RCSI Hospitals.

History

The National Children's Hospital Satellite Centre Connolly Hospital opened in 2019
The rear of St Francis' Hospice, in the townland of Abbotstown.

The hospital, which was initially established as a tuberculosis sanitarium, was designed by Norman White and constructed by Sisk Builders. It was named in memory of the Irish republican leader, James Connolly, and officially opened as the James Connolly Memorial Hospital in 1955. Following the introduction of effective antibiotic treatment, the hospital was re-designated as a general hospital for the North West area of Dublin and re-opened as such in 1973.

In 2005 a new accident and emergency unit, new operating theatres, new surgery facilities and a new intensive care unit were officially opened by the Minister of State for Children, Brian Lenihan, who also announced that the hospital would be renamed the Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown.

The government allocated 6.8 acres on the Abbotstown lands at Blanchardstown for the building of a hospice under the care of the Daughters of Charity. This was a sister site to their hospice in Raheny. Construction works were completed in April 2011.

A satellite facility for the National Children's Hospital, providing outpatient facilities and an urgent care centre opened in summer 2019.

Teaching

Connolly Hospital campus bilingual signs

The hospital provides clinical teaching as part of the graduate entry program to medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.


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