The country’s only integrated multi-hospital campus, St Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) is one of the world’s leading academic teaching hospitals and provides frontline, acute, chronic and emergency care across over 50 different medical specialities. The only public hospital in Ireland with international accreditation, SVUH has set standards of excellence in clinical diagnosis and treatment, education and research, and a pioneering, multi-disciplinary approach to patient care. The emergency department is the major referral centre for the region for patients with strokes and major trauma, while the campus is home to a number of national centres including the National Centre for Cystic Fibrosis, National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP), National Liver Transplant Programme and the recently established National Pancreas Transplant Programme.

St Michael’s Hospital (SMH) is an acute general hospital providing a range of specialised clinical services to the people of South Dublin and Wicklow. With facilities offering pathological and radiological services, the hospital provides care for both medical and surgical patients, as well as outpatient clinics and services including cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes treatment, heart failure treatment, and pulmonary rehabilitation. An academic teaching and nurse training hospital, SMH has 95 inpatient beds incorporating 7-day, 5-day, and day care facilities and an 8am – 8pm Emergency Department. Its specialised heart failure programme seeks to improve quality of life for patients with heart failure in the East Coast area with a team including consultant cardiologists, clinical nurse specialists, psychotherapist, physiotherapist, and dieticians.