Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
Hospital in County Dublin, Ireland
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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.
| Beaumont Hospital | |
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| Health Service Executive | |
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  Shown in Dublin | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Beaumont, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53.391142°N 6.222154°W |
| Organisation | |
| HSE | |
| Type | General |
| Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Dublin City University | |
| Services | |
| Yes | |
| Beds | 820 |
| History | |
| Founded | 29 November 1987 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
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St. Joseph's Hospital (Raheny) is also under the management of the Beaumont Hospital Board.[2]
History
The 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
Beaumont 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]
Recent developments
In 2022, the Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre — a collaboration between Beaumont Hospital, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network — received accreditation from the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI), becoming only the second cancer centre in Ireland to achieve this designation.[15]
In January 2025, Beaumont Hospital launched a five-year strategic plan, Building Excellence in Care, Together (2025–2030), prioritising infrastructure renewal, digital transformation, and the pursuit of Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation.[16] Planning permission for a substantially expanded emergency department was submitted in October 2024.[17]