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The Trinity Centre was opened in 1994 and it incorporates the clinical departments of Trinity's Medical School, Unit for Dietetics and Nutrition, Nursing School and the library of the Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as the William Stokes Postgraduate Centre. |
The Trinity Centre was opened in 1994 and it incorporates the clinical departments of Trinity's Medical School, Unit for Dietetics and Nutrition, Nursing School and the library of the Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as the William Stokes Postgraduate Centre. |
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The St James's campus was chosen in 2012 as the site for the [[National Paediatric Hospital]], allowing [[colocation (business)|colocation]] with the adult hospital, and potentially "trilocation" with a future [[maternity hospital]] on the same site. |
The St James's campus was chosen in 2012 as the site for the [[National Paediatric Hospital]], allowing [[colocation (business)|colocation]] with the adult hospital, and potentially "trilocation" with a future [[maternity hospital]] on the same site.<ref name=dolphin>{{cite report |author=Review Group on the National Children’s Hospital |author-link= |authors= |date=7 June 2012 |title=Report of the Review Group on the National Children's Hospital|url=http://health.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dolphin_Group_Report.pdf |publisher=Department of Health |access-date= 12 June 2016}}</ref> |
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==Trinity Centre for Health Sciences== |
==Trinity Centre for Health Sciences== |
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Revision as of 11:25, 4 May 2019
| St. James's Hospital | |
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 South Circular Road entrance to St. James's Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | St. James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′23″N 6°17′40″W / 53.3397°N 6.2945°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | Voluntary university hospital |
| Affiliated university | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Services | |
| Beds | 1,010[1] |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.stjames.ie |
St. James's Hospital[2] (SJH;[3] Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Séamas)[4] is the largest university teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Its academic partner is Trinity College.
History
The origins of the hospital lie in a poorhouse initiated when which Dublin Corporation paid £300 to acquire the site in 1603.[5] The war between William III and James II intervened and project was abandoned until Mary, Duchess of Ormonde, wife of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde laid a foundation stone in 1703.[5] The pamphleteer, Jonathan Swift, lobbied for the creation of facilities for abandoned infants and, in 1727, the poorhouse was expanded by the addition of a foundling hospital.[6] Arthur Guinness served on the board of directors in its early years.[7]
The foundling hospital closed in 1829 and the buildings were absorbed by the South Dublin Union Workhouse.[5] During the Easter Rising in 1916, the South Dublin Union Workhouse was occupied by rebel forces.[5] The poorhouse evolved to become a municipal hospital known as St Kevin's Hospital following Irish independence in 1921 and changed its name to St. James's Hospital in 1971.[5]
Several small Dublin hospitals were closed or changed their functions in the 1980s including Mercer's Hospital, Sir Patrick Dun's, Dr Steevens' Hospital and the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street. Most of the services provided by these hospitals were incorporated into the new St. James's.
Some units such as Hospital 5 and hospital 2 remained functional after the transfer to the new hospital and they continue to provide in patient care. Hospital 5 used to contain the midwifery department which closed in the 1980s and many older female patients admitted to the medical wards of Hospital 5 recounted how they had delivered their children in the same building many years previously. Other buildings such as hospital 1 changed function moving from providing inpatient care (hospital 1: oncology/cardiology/medical) to providing administration or day care services. Hospital 3 (a nice building which still had bullet holes in its walls from the Easter Rising) was sadly knocked down in the early 1990s (for parking). The school of nursing/Nurses Home building became administrations offices with the main teaching room becoming the Board Room. The current main hospital canteen was a former surgical ward.
In the late 1980s early 1990s the hospital was the first facility in Ireland to provide dedicated services to patients affected by HIV. At this early stage of the outbreak there was often little to offer in terms of treatment and many often very young people some of whom were from the local community died of HIV related infections in the hospital during this time. In recent years most HIV services in the hospital are now provided on an outpatient basis with much more positive treatment options available to patients which is a change from the early stages of the outbreak.
The Trinity Centre was opened in 1994 and it incorporates the clinical departments of Trinity's Medical School, Unit for Dietetics and Nutrition, Nursing School and the library of the Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as the William Stokes Postgraduate Centre.
The St James's campus was chosen in 2012 as the site for the National Paediatric Hospital, allowing colocation with the adult hospital, and potentially "trilocation" with a future maternity hospital on the same site.[8]
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
The first phase of the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences at St James' Hospital was opened in 1994 to provide teaching and library space, a staff/student common room and accommodation for academic clinical departments. It also houses the hospital school of nursing and the William Stokes Postgraduate Centre for continuing medical education. A second phase was opened in 1998 housing the School of Physiotherapy, the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, the Haughton Institute for Postgraduate Education in the Health Sciences, the Department of Medical Gerontology and Faculty Administration. Development of the site is continuing.
The Trinity Centre for Health Sciences contains:
- Department of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Medical Gerontology
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Department of General Practice
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- John Stearne Medical Library
- The St James's Hospital School of Nursing
- The William Stokes Postgraduate Centre for continuing medical education
- The School of Occupational Therapy
- The School of Physiotherapy
- Discipline of Radiation Therapy
- The Trinity College School of Nursing and Midwifery
- The Haughton Institute for Postgraduate Education in the Health Sciences
- The Central Pathology Laboratory contains:
- Department of Clinical Microbiology
- Department of Histopathology and Morbid Anatomy
- Department of Haematology
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Clinical research centre
Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre coordinated a successful bid to the Wellcome Trust for a clinical research centre to be led by Professor Dermot P. Kelleher. This new centre is intended to be built at St James's Hospital,[needs update][citation needed] and included in a network of other clinical research facilities in Dublin at the Mater, Beaumont,and St. Vincent's hospitals.[citation needed]
References
- ^ 2013 St James's Hospital Annual Report (PDF) (Report). Dublin: St James's Hospital. 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- ^ "home page". St James's Hospital. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
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{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). St. James's Hospital.
- ^ a b c d e "New landmark sculpture for St. James's Hospital". Irish Medical Times. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Anatomy of a Dublin hospital that reaches back to 1703". Irish Times. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "School of Nursing and Midwifery International School Prospectus 2017" (PDF). Trininty College Dublin. p. 21. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ Review Group on the National Children’s Hospital (7 June 2012). Report of the Review Group on the National Children's Hospital (PDF) (Report). Department of Health. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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Further reading
- Coakley, Davis; Coakley, Davis (2017). The History and Heritage of St. James's Hospital Dublin. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1846826078.