St. John's Hospital () is an acute general voluntary hospital located in the city of
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...
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County Limerick
County Limerick () is a western Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Reg ...
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Ireland
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. St. John's Hospital is governed and managed independently by its own hospital board in accordance with its constitution. Although it is independently managed, St. John's Hospital is one of six hospitals that form
UL Hospitals Group
The UL Hospitals Group () is one of the hospital groups established by the Health Service Executive in Republic of Ireland, Ireland.
History
The grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, James Reilly (Irish politician), ...
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History
The hospital, founded by Lady
Lucy Hartstonge, was built on the site of an old barracks and opened as the Fever Hospital of Saint John in 1781. The
Sisters of the Little Company of Mary
The Little Company of Mary, also known as the Blue Sisters, is a Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute of women dedicated to caring for the suffering, the sick, and the dying. The order was founded in 1877 in Nottingham, England by Mary Pot ...
took over the management of the hospital in 1888.
The emergency department was replaced by a minor injuries unit in 2013.
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1781 establishments in Ireland
Hospitals in County Limerick
Hospitals established in the 1780s
Health Service Executive hospitals