The new Mater hospital: green and tech-driven
The first phase opening of the €284 million Mater Campus Hospital Development is being launched today.
The revamped public hospital on Dublin's northside promises state-of-the art facilities including 12 operating theatres, 120 one-bed en suite rooms, new emergency and out patient departments and a 444-space underground car park.
Phase One of the hospital, providing for the new outpatients department, catering and technical services, will be fully open in June.
The new emergency department, car park, operating theatres, ICU, radiology and single en suite rooms will roll out between July and December with final works due by May 2013.
Computer-generated images issued of the planned development show an airy, open, modern space.
It will be the greenest and most technologically-enabled hospital in Ireland, the developers say.
The Mater hospital currently admits 16,500 patients each year and treats in the region of 40,000 day patients, 47,500 emergency cases and 220,000 outpatients annually.
Phase One of the hospital, providing for the new outpatients department, catering and technical services, will be fully open in June.
The new emergency department, car park, operating theatres, ICU, radiology and single en suite rooms will roll out in Phase Two between July and December 2012. Completion of final works will be in May of 2013.
Mater Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Mr Brian Conlan, said: “This is a great day for all our patients and staff. We now have state-of-the-art, eco-friendly accommodation and facilities, creating a perfect environment for delivery of top class care to our patients provided by the best professionals in the business."
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