| 1834 |
January: Earl of Meath’s House, 56 St. Stephen’s Green purchased on behalf of the Sisters of Charity. Sisters take formal possession of house. J.M O’Ferrall appointed first physician |
| 1835 |
April: St. Vincent’s Hospital opens with beds for 12 female patients |
| 1841 |
57 St. Stephen’s Green purchased. House collapses during alterations |
| 1858 |
Death of founder Mary Aikenhead |
| 1879 |
55 St. Stephen’s Green purchased for £1,300 |
| 1888 |
58 and 59 St. Stephen’s Green purchased |
| 1892 |
Training school for nurses opened |
| 1910 |
May: Nurses’ home built – first conferring of medical degrees of National University of Ireland |
| 1912 |
94 Lower Leeson Street converted into semi-private nursing home |
| 1917 |
60 St. Stephen’s Green becomes semiprivate nursing home |
| 1934 |
January: Centenary celebrations July: Lands at Elm Park purchased for new hospital for £25,000 |
| 1948 |
November: Permission to build a 450 – bed hospital for £1,350,000 granted |
| 1956 |
January: First sod turned on site of new hospital |
| 1957 |
University departments of Medicine and Surgery established in St. Vincent’s, Stephen Green |
| 1958 |
Pembroke Nursing Home purchased |
| 1960 |
Permission granted for 250 bed hospital for £1,500,000 |
| 1963 |
First kidney transplant in Ireland (*National Kidney Transplant Service now based in Beaumont Hospital). |
| 1965 |
Permission granted for 450 bed hospital |
| 1968 |
October: Community take possession of St. Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park |
| 1969 |
July: Pembroke Nursing Home complete |
| 1970 |
January: First patients admitted to Elm Park from St. Stephen’s Green. October: First operation carried out. 1 November: St. Vincent’s Hospital, St. Stephen’s Green moves entirely to St. Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park. Official opening by the Minister for Health, Mr. Erskine Childers |
| 1972 |
Board of Management established |
| 1974 |
May: Private nursing home opened |
| 1989 |
Education and Research Centre completed |
| 1990 |
May: Celebration of centenary of School of Nursing |
| 1993 |
24th January: 1st Liver Transplant carried out |
| 2002 |
Dec: St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group is established |
| 2006 |
Opening of newly constructed Clinical Services Building including Ambulatory Day Care Centre (ADCC) suites. Hume St. transfer to St Vincent’s University Hospital |
| 2009 |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital became a smoke free campus |
| 2010 |
First public hospital in Ireland to receive Joint Commission International (JCI) Accreditation |
| 2011 |
Joint Advisory Group (JAG) Accreditation |
| 2012 |
Opening of the Nutley Wing – 110 bed single en-suite ward block |
| 2013 |
Opening of the Acute Medical Unit at St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
| 2016 |
November: Announcement of planned construction of the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park Campus |
| 2016 |
Dec: 1000th Liver Transplant completed at St. Vincent’s University Hospital |