The New Hospital Development Project

The Mater Campus Hospital Development involved the redevelopment of key parts of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. It provides for modern buildings and equipment for existing services at the Mater, and will allow for significant additional capacity to service growing patient needs.

Under development since 1999, the first phase new Hospital is now about to open on time, and within budget. The result is a significant, patient-centred campus which will make the Mater the greenest, leanest and most technologically enabled hospital in Ireland.

The new hospital will open in three phases:

Phase 1: May – June 2012 – The new Outpatients Department, Catering and Technical services.

Phase 2: July – December 2012 – The Emergency Department, Operating Theatres, ICU, Radiology and wards.

Phase 3: January – May 2013 – Completion of final works

New facilities to be provided by the development will include:

  • New Emergency Department;
  • New Outpatients Department;
  • 12 new theatres
  • Intensive Care and High Dependency Units;
  • New Radiology Department;
  • 120 replacement beds (100% single rooms);
  • Catering and Waste Management Departments;
  • New Energy Centre;
  • Basement car park (444 spaces).

Key benefits of the development include creating:

The new hospital has been designed to meet patients’ needs through an efficient and high quality staffing environment that can deliver best practice healthcare now and into the future. It has:

  • Increased capacity to meet demand, meaning reduced waiting times for theatre, outpatients and accident and Emergency Department services
  • 100% single rooms, helping the prevention of spread of infection and providing privacy for patients
  • Appropriately sized departments and waiting areas, meaning privacy, dignity and comfort
  • Correct departmental adjacencies and signage, meaning clear wayfinding through the hospitals
  • Use of natural light, art and green spaces, improving physical environment and atmosphere
  • Improvement in all facilities, reducing stress and creating opportunities for efficiencies
  • “Intelligent” Hospital and “Green” Hospital design creating efficiencies in service delivery
  • The only critical care centre in the country where each patient is looked after in a dedicated, single room
  • 6 protected palliative care beds in the oncology unit as part of the Hospice Friendly Hospital (HFH programme
  • Improved Mobility Management to include Metro stop provision and 444 space car park
  • Wifi throughout the hospital

Development Programme

  • Enabling Buildings, including Hostel and Centre for Nurse Education completed in December 2006
  • Demolition of Nurses Home and services diversions complete
  • Relocation of Energy Centre, excavations, and associated works, and building Leo Street Boundary wall October 2008 – Summer 2009
  • Hospital Superstructure, Basement Car Park, and clinical areas commence Summer 2009. Phased opening from June 2012,  complete by 2013.