Between the years of 1978 and 1984 Beaumont Hospital was planned, commissioned, and built. The design of the hospital is almost an exact replica of that used in the building of the Cork University College Hospital (Wilton) in the early 1970s.
The Hospital opened its doors to the public on 29th November 1987. This followed the closure and transfer to Beaumont of two city centre hospitals - the Charitable Infirmary in Jervis Street and St Laurence's (the Richmond).
In 2004 St. Joseph's Hospital Raheny site was acquired by Beaumont. It provides both medical and surgical inpatient care, day-care, outpatient, outpatient physiotherapy, radiology services, Care of the Elderly Rehabilitation and a 100 bedded Raheny Community Nursing Unit.
The Richmond Hospital which opened in 1811 was originally part of a complex of 3 hospitals, collectively known as St. Laurence’s, the Richmond, Whitworth & Hardwick. The hospital treated the sick and the poor including ‘Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars & Strolling women’. The Charitable Infirmary in Jervis Street in 1718 and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Ireland which opened in 1804 to look after the ‘poor miserables of Dublin’. |