St. James's Hospital ''Confirms spelling of name as "James's" and Irish name'' () is a

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. Its academic partner is

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. It is managed by Dublin Midlands Hospital Group.

History

The origins of the hospital lie in a

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initiated when

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paid £300 to acquire the site in 1603. The war between

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and James II intervened and the project was abandoned until Mary, Duchess of Ormonde, wife of

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laid a foundation stone in 1703. The

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, lobbied for the creation of facilities for abandoned infants and, in 1727, the poorhouse was expanded by the addition of a

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. The brewer

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served on the board of directors in its early years. The foundling hospital closed in 1829 and the buildings were absorbed by the South Dublin Union Workhouse. During the

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in 1916, the South Dublin Union Workhouse was occupied by rebel forces. The poorhouse evolved to become a municipal hospital known as St Kevin's Hospital, following Irish independence in 1921, and changed its name to St. James's Hospital in 1971. The Trinity Centre, which incorporates the clinical departments of Trinity College's Medical School and its medical library, opened in 1994. A new

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unit for

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treatment was established at the hospital in 2012. The St James's campus was chosen in 2012 as the site for the

National Paediatric Hospital , the unnamed children's hospital remains under construction on the campus of St. James's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, as a regional secondary and national tertiary centre. Referred to in planning documents simply as the new children's hospital ...

, allowing colocation with the adult hospital, and potentially "trilocation" with a future

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on the same site. In 2015, the hospital became the first hospital in Ireland to introduce routine testing for

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and

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for all patients arriving at the hospital.

Services

The hospital, which is the main

for

, has 1,010 beds.

Transport

The hospital is served by

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, as well as a number of

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routes.

Notable people

* Anne Young, founder of the first Irish school of general nursing.

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