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Mercy University Hospital
The Mercy University Hospital (MUH) is a large teaching hospital of UCC in Cork city Ireland.
The second largest hospital in Cork city, MUH is a 354-bed acute general hospital providing in-patient, day-patient, out-patient services and accident and emergency services.
Located in the busy centre of Cork, the Mercy University Hospital is one of two Voluntary Hospitals in the city. Currently, the hospital employs approximately 1,500 staff. Annually treated are approximately 24,000 inpatients and day patients, 28,000 outpatients and 24,000 emergency patients treated. The number of patients treated by the Mercy University Hospital has risen substantially in the last decade and will continue to do so as new facilities are brought on stream.
HISTORY
The oldest part of the Mercy University Hospital was built between 1764-1767, originally as the Mansion House for the Mayor of Cork. It later became an educational establishment before becoming the Mercy University Hospital on 17th March 1857 when the Sisters of Mercy established a hospital for the sick and poor of the city.
The hospital began as a 40-bed hospital staffed by four Sisters but in the intervening years it has expanded rapidly both in terms of facilities and accommodation. In the last four years, the Mercy University Hospital has undergone very significant capital development, spending over 19,050,000 on relocating its public wards into a new building and the further development of various specialities within the hospital, including a 50-bed acute psychiatric unit and new pathology and clinical pharmacology units
The hospital participates in the Medical undergraduate training programme that runs in association with the National University of Ireland. The Cork Voluntary Hospitals School of Nursing is based at the Mercy University Hospital and participates in the Registration Diploma Programme in General Nursing in association with University College Cork.