Bon Secours Hospital | |
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Bon Secours Health System | |
Geography | |
Location | College Road, Cork, Ireland |
Coordinates | 51°53′29″N 8°29′52″W / 51.8914°N 8.4979°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Private |
Type | General |
Services | |
Beds | 343 |
History | |
Opened | 1915 |
Links | |
Website |
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The Bon Secours Hospital, Cork is a private hospital in Cork, Ireland. The hospital is part of Bon Secours Mercy Health. [1] This includes sister hospitals in Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Tralee. [2] The hospital has over 18,000 admissions and 29,000 outpatients attendances per year. [3]
The separate hospital and convent blocks in Cork were commissioned by the Bon Secours Sisters and completed in 1915. [4]
The hospital has 343 in-patient beds. There are 30 day case beds, 30 endoscopy beds and 6 oncology day spaces. The hospital has 5 major and 2 minor operating theatres. [5] Services provided include cardiology, diagnostic imaging, nutrition and dietetics, histopathology, pharmacy, physiotherapy, respiratory medicine, angiography, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes specialist services, intensive care, and oncology. In 2008 the hospital opened a Rapid Access Chest Pain clinic [6] for same day assessment of chest pain referred patients. In 2009 the hospital opened a Specialist Breast Care Clinic, [7] which offers a triple assessment to patients within 3 days of referral. In 2011 in co-operation with the Irish Cancer Society, a Daffodil Centre was opened in the hospital to provide information services to patients their families and the general public. [8] The hospital is a centre for surgical solutions for morbid obesity. [9] The Bon Secours Cork Cancer Centre in association with UPMC opened in 2019. [10]
The hospital received Joint Commission International accreditation in 2005. [11]