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September 2009 - St. Vincent's Private Hospital was awarded Joint Commission International Accreditation. Standards focus on the areas that most directly impact patient care. These include access to care, assessment of patients, infection control, patient and family rights, and education. Standards also address facility management and safety, staff qualifications, quality improvement, organizational leadership, and management of information.

September 2009 - St Vincent ’s Healthcare Group Limited (SVHG), a charitable body which is owned by the Sisters of Charity, is in the process of constructing the new private hospital on it’s site at Herbert Avenue , Dublin 4.  It also owns and operates St Vincent’s Private Hospital , St Vincent’s University Hospital and St Michael’s Hospital Dun Laoghaire.   The new private hospital will increase the private hospital accommodation by 72 inpatient beds (from 164 to 236), 14 day care beds (from 16 to 30), and 6 oncology treatment units (from 16 to 22).   Building on the existing private hospital’s role as a centre of excellence and a significant provider of treatment for cancer, the new private hospital will provide additional facilities such as two additional operating theatres, 16 consulting suites, and satellite laboratories.   The new private hospital will be connected to St Vincent’s University Hospital via an underground link tunnel.  


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It is planned that the new hospital will offer a comprehensive range of specialist services including Breast Surgery, Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, ENT Surgery, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Microbiology, Radiology, Radiotherapy, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Renal Metabolic Medicine, Medicine for the Elderly, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Urology, Gynaecology, Haematology, Histopathology, Palliative Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology, Thoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery.

The Design Team for the new hospital comprises the following:
Architects – Scott Tallon Walker
Quantity Surveyors – Bruce Shaw
Structural Engineers – ARUP
Services Engineers – Buro Happold
Project Management – BSPM
Planning Consultants – Tiros Resources                                                


It is envisaged that, on completion, the new private hospital will result in the creation of circa 237 additional permanent jobs in the healthcare sector.  


SVHG has engaged John Paul Construction to construct and fit-out the new private hospital.   The overall project cost is in the region of €190m.  . At this stage the building is well advanced and there are in excess of 200 individuals employed on the project.   Site works commenced in March 2008 and the projected completion date is 1 November 2010.  The project is funded by a combination of a Bank of Ireland loan and investor equity.

March 2008 - Construction has commenced on the development of a New Private Hospital on the adjacent St. Anthony's Site. The hospital will comprise 236 in-patient beds and is due for completion in 2010. 

The new hospital when completed will replace the existing 164 bed St. Vincent’s Private Hospital which was established by the Religious Sisters of Charity in 1974 and which forms part of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group.

 

13th July 2005 - St Vincent’s Private Hospital which is part of the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group, today announced the completion of phase 1 of their €4.5 million Radiotherapy Development Plan, which further develops the Radiation Oncology Department (established in 1995) and aims to make a significant contribution to meeting the National demand for Radiation Oncology Services.

The development plan is on time and within budget and comprises the installation of two new Elekta Linear Accelerator treatment units and a new GE CT scanner with virtual simulation software for treatment design.

The new treatment machines provide more efficient treatments in a number of ways. Treatment times are shorter and the Elekta Prescise Treatment system has designed an integrated solution to ensure that the performance parameters allow for a wide range of radiotherapy techniques. The system also provides better quality control of treatments and all systems are linked to the department network, which records and verifies accurate treatment details and treatment design to the machines.

The network also enables information to be shared between the Linear accelerator, the CT scanner and the treatment planning system, allowing a seamless transfer of patient information form one unit to another. The system also includes iView GT, an on-line treatment imaging device that provides additional ability to take patient positioning to the next level of accuracy, through the instant delivery of high quality images using solid state detector technology.

The first Elekta Linear Accelerator treatment machine was accepted for clinical use in March 2005 and has treated more than 200 patients to date.

Phase 2 of the project is already well under way, with the decommissioning of an old GE Linear Accelerator and the completion of refurbishment work required to accommodate the second Elekta machine. The second machine arrived on site on the 9 July and is due to go clinical in January 2006. Once in clinical use, the introduction of the second machine will enable treatment capacity within the department to double to approx 1300 new patients per year.

“St. Vincent’s Private Hospital have been at he forefront of providing Radiotherapy services as part of their comprehensive multi-disciplinary oncology services since the mid 1990’s. With the introduction of these state of the art machines, we hope this expansion of our services will open up further treatment opportunities for a wider range of both public and private patients” a hospital spokesperson said.



 



May 2004 - St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group was surveyed during the week commencing 10th May 2004 and has been awarded the ‘Pre-Accreditation Advanced’ award. St. Vincent’s Private Hospital is part of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group which also includes St. Vincent’s University Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital, Dun Laoghaire.


January 2003 - St. Vincent’s Private Hospital (‘hospital’) merged with St. Vincent’s University Hospital (Incorporating St. Michael’s Hospital, Dun Laoghaire) in January 2003 as part of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Ltd. The hospital will continue to operate under the name ‘St. Vincent’s Private Hospital’ as a member of the Group.
 

2003 - St. Vincent’s Private Hospital has installed the first General Electric 16 Multi-Slice CT Scanner in Ireland in 2003. This major advance in technology is at the cutting edge of CT imaging worldwide and is the latest development in the range of diagnostic services on offer at the Hospital. From the patient perspective this technology can result in earlier detection of disease and improve survival rates from life-threatening conditions such as cancers and vascular diseases

The Multi-Slice technology allows for faster, high resolution, multi organ acquisition in a single breath hold. Specialised software and hardware includes virtual colonoscopy, advanced vessel analysis (for CT angiography) and advanced lung analysis (suitable for low dose cancer screening). The department is open from 8 a.m. Monday to Friday. For appointments contact 01-2698086.

 

2003 - Ms. Sheila Holland was awarded ‘Nurse of the Year’ by the Irish Nurse Magazine. Sheila has worked in the Oncology Unit of the Hospital for many years and the hospital is very proud of her achievement. Pictured with Sheila (Second from left) are Gretta Colbert, Director of Nursing, Sr. Anne MacEneaney, Board Member and Mr. Michael Redmond, Chief Executive Officer.

 


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