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The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, commonly known as the Mater, is a
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, on
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in
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,
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, Ireland. It is managed by
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. The Mater serves as one of two major trauma centers for Ireland: the other is
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.


History

The hospital was founded as an initiative of
Catherine McAuley Catherine McAuley, RSM (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.Austin, Mary Stanislas"Sisters of Mercy."''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Ap ...
of the
Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. In 2019, the institute had about 6,200 Religious sister, sisters worldwide, organized into a number ...
and was officially opened by Daniel Murray,
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, on 24 September 1861. ''Mater misericordiae'' means "Mother of Mercy" in
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, a title of the
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and alludes to its founders, the Sisters of Mercy. Electric light, a major step in the improvement of
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, was first used by
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,
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and
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as well as the examination of the
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(and later
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) cavities at the hospital in 1865. It became the first hospital in Ireland to remain open 24 hours a day when it dealt with a
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epidemic in 1886. In 2003, the National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, the leading centre for the treatment of
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in Ireland, was established at the hospital and, in 2008, the hospital became the first public hospital in Ireland to offer
percutaneous aortic valve replacement Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is the implantation of the aortic valve of the heart through the blood vessels without actual removal of the native valve (as opposed to the aortic valve replacement by open heart surgery, surgica ...
.


Services

The hospital, which is a teaching hospital for the
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, has 997 beds, along with 206 Day Beds and 15 Operating Theatres. It contains a negative-pressure ventilation ward which houses the National Bio-Terrorism Unit, and is the National Centre in Ireland for various services. The newly-established Rock Wing will also include a 24-bed trauma ward, helping the hospital to become one of Ireland's two Major Trauma Centres.


Notable staff

* Mary McGivney (1865– )
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,
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from 1892–1920.Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022 She trained at
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,
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under
Eva Luckes Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (8 July 1854 – 16 February 1919) was matron of the London Hospital from 1880 to 1919. Early life Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (she spelled her name Lückes with the umlaut until World War I)Rogers, Sarah (2022). ...
between 1888–1889.Susan McGahey, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/2, 31; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London McGivney also completed three month's maternity training at Endell Street Women's Hospital, London.


See also

*
List of hospitals in the Republic of Ireland This is a list of hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. Connacht County Galway & Galway, Galway City *Bon Secours Hospital, Galway *Galway Clinic, Galway *Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway *Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe *Un ...
*
Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup The Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup is a rugby union competition contested by the teaching hospitals in Dublin since 1881. The competition has a claim to the oldest rugby union List of oldest rugby union competitions, competition in the world. The Unit ...


References


External links


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