About us

The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a level 4 teaching hospital based in Dublin's north inner city. The hospital was opened in 1861 by the Sisters of Mercy. In addition to the local services for our catchment area, the Mater Hospital provides a range of frontline and specialist services on a regional and national level. 

Our national specialties

We are the national centre for:

• Heart surgery.
• Heart and lung transplants.
• Extra corporeal life support (ECLS) - a procedure that uses a machine to take over the work of the lungs and sometimes the heart.
• Spinal injuries
• Pulmonary hypertension - a rare lung disorder
• Bone anchored hearing aid
• National isolation unit

Last year at a glance:

In the last year we provided treatment to:

• 24,750 inpatients
• 63,687 day patients
• 221,956 outpatients
• 82,307 emergency department visits

Our hospital offers:

• 580 beds - more than 150 of these are inpatient beds are single ensuite rooms
• 85 day beds
• 12 operating theatres

A university teaching hospital - what does this mean?

Education, training and research have always been at the core of the Mater Hospital. We are committed to providing excellence in healthcare for all of our patients and in order to achieve this we recognise that we must support our current and future staff to learn, grow and innovate.

Our strong academic partnerships allow us to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate education to hundreds of healthcare professionals including nurses, doctors, clinical therapists, radiographers and many more. We also work closely with academic institutions to deliver cutting edge research that has a direct impact on patient care.

Read more about our education and training and research and innovation.