The Mater Campus Hospital Development is a project that involves the rebuilding of key parts of Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. This development will go a long way to addressing the need for modern buildings and equipment for existing services at the Mater and will provide significant additional capacity to service growing patient needs.

New facilities to be provided by the development will include:

• New accident and emergency department
• New outpatients department
• 12 new theatres and ICU/HDU departments
• New radiology department
• 120 Replacement Beds, 60% of which will be single rooms
• Expansion space with capacity for 70 single rooms
• New CSSD, Catering and waste management departments
• New Energy Centre
• A new 444 space basement carpark on two levels

Key benefits of the development include creating:

• Sufficient capacity to meet demand, meaning reduced waiting times for theatre, outpatients and accident and emergency services
• Increase in single rooms and smaller wards, helping the prevention of spread of infection
• Appropriately sized departments and waiting areas, meaning privacy, dignity and comfort
• Correct departmental adjacencies and signage, meaning clear way finding through the hospitals
• Use of natural light, art and green spaces, improving physical environment and atmosphere
• Increase in outpatient and day procedure capacity in the old Mater Hospital, meaning patients can access the service on a day basis
• Improvement in all facilities, reducing stress and creating opportunities for efficiencies
• “Intelligent” Hospital and “Green” Hospital design creating efficiencies in service delivery
• Contribution to the urban renewal of the North Inner City
• Consolidation of a major hospital district creating a vibrant economic engine for North Inner City
• Improved Mobility Management to include Metro stop.

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 '08 – Summer 2009
• Hospital Superstructure, Basement Car Park, and clinical areas commence Summer 2009 – complete January 2012

Further Information

• The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Decanting and Enabling Programme