St. Mary's Health Campus | |
Org/Group: | Health Service Executive |
Location: | Gurranabraher, Cork |
Region: | County Cork |
Country: | Ireland |
Healthcare: | HSE |
Type: | Regional |
Speciality: | Orthopaedics |
Emergency: | No |
Affiliation: | University College Cork |
Beds: | 91 |
Founded: | 1955 |
Coordinates: | 51.9057°N -8.4958°W |
Map Type: | Ireland |
St. Mary's Health Campus (Irish: Campas Sláinte Naomh Muire) is a health facility located at Gurranabraher in Cork, Ireland.
The hospital was commissioned in response to concerns about a fever outbreak and opened in November 1955.[1] The hospital developed a specialism in orthopedic surgery and, as St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, it became the first hospital in Ireland to undertake hip replacement surgery in 1970.[1] Construction on a new community nursing unit at the site started in August 2008.[2] After orthopaedic services at St Mary's were transferred to the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital in 2011, an urgent care centre was established at St Mary's in 2012.[3] Around the same time the facility became known as St. Mary's Health Campus.[4]