The Mater Private Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Príobháideach an Mater) is a private hospital business. Its main hospital is located just to the east of the

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal an Mater Misercordiae), commonly known as the Mater ( "matter"), is a major teaching hospital, based at Eccles Street, Phibsborough, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is managed b ...

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. In addition to the main hospital in

, the business has a hospital in Cork, cancer treatment centres in

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and

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and various out-patient clinics.

History

The Mater Private Hospital in Dublin was built on the site of No

7 Eccles Street 7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland. It was the home of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of the novel ''Ulysses'' (1922) by James Joyce. The house was demolished in 1967, and the site is now occupied by the Mater Private Hospital. Hist ...

, the home of the main character (Leopold Bloom) in James Joyce's ''Ulysses.'' In Joyce's youth, No 7 Eccles Street was the actual home of his contemporary, JF Byrne. Its founders included Sister Gemma Byrne who became the first chief executive after the Dublin hospital's opening in May 1986. The Mater Private Group was sold to Infravia Capital Partners for about €500 million in 2018.

Development

In 2022 it signed a deal with Meditech to implement its

electronic health record An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared throu ...

. This will include a specialty specific solution for oncologists.

Funding

Patients may be self-paying, covered by private

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, or funded under the state's National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). In 2010, the hospital received €23 million in NTPF funds, the largest payment to any single institution. In 2011 it was announced that the NTPF programme would be wound down.

Accreditation

In 2002, the Dublin hospital received

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accreditation.

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* {{Irish hospitals Catholic hospitals in Europe Hospitals established in 1986 Hospitals in Dublin (city) 1986 establishments in Ireland Private hospitals in the Republic of Ireland