Co-located hospitals

Mount Carmel Medical (MCM), the private healthcare company tipped to develop a private hospital on the grounds of Connolly Hospital in Dublin 15 is due to apply for planning permission for a €100 million co-located hospital development in Sligo next month.

MCM, which is owned by property developer Gerry Conlan, is finalising the project agreement for the 96-bed private hospital in the grounds of Sligo General Hospital with the Health Service Executive (HSE).

The healthcare firm, which owns Sligo’s existing private hospital, St Joseph’s in Garden Hill, is also reported to be close to finalising a deal to build a private co-located hospital in Waterford.

As previously reported in Community Voice, the company is reported to be the only remaining consortium negotiating for the contract to build a co-located hospital on the grounds of Connolly Hospital following the withdrawal of the Bernard McNamara led Synchrony consortium from the negotiations last year. If MCM wins the Dublin 15 contract, it will be the owner/operator of three of the state’s eight co-located hospitals.

The controversial co-location initiative was originally put forward by health minister Mary Harney as a way to free 1,000 beds in public hospitals by transferring private patients to the private facilities.

In addition to the three co-located hospitals and St. Joseph’s in Sligo, MCM also owns and operates Aut Even private hospital in Kilkenny and Mount Carmel hospital in Churchtown.

The company is headed by Chief Executive Joe Kelly, a former Defence Forces captain who managed the military hospital at the Curragh before he retired from the army.

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