St Vincent's Hospital has moved from St Stephen's Green to a modern purpose built facility at Elm Park.
After 136 years on St Stephen's Green in Dublin, St Vincent's Hospital has moved to a new, modern facility three miles away at Elm Park. One of the biggest challenges for the new hospital was transferring the patients to the new premises. The hospital has been in operation since the beginning of November and today celebrates the official opening.
The opening ceremony was attended by President Éamon de Valera, Fine Gael leader Liam Cosgrave and Labour TD Michael O'Leary, among others. Tánaiste and Minister for Health Erskine Childers unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the hospital under the management of the Irish Sisters of Charity. The Most Rev Dr John Charles McQuaid performed blessed the new health facility.
The new St Vincent's Hospital is the largest voluntary teaching hospital to be commissioned in Ireland or Great Britain since World War II. Facilities include 454 beds, an accident and emergency department, an outpatients department, clinical laboratories, lecture theatres and a library.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 November 1970. The footage shown here is mute.
