About CHI at Connolly
CHI at Crumlin (formerly Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin) was founded in 1956 and, since that time, has been dedicated to looking after the little patients who need our help and finding new and better ways to treat sick children.
CHI at Crumlin is Ireland’s largest children’s hospital and is the national centre for a range of specialities including:
– Childhood cancers and blood disorders
– Cardiac diseases
– Major burns
– Cystic Fibrosis
– Clinical Genetics
– Rheumatology
CHI at Crumlin receives more than 150,000 patient visitors every year – caring for children from all over Ireland. There are thirty-five different clinical specialities in the hospital.
In 2020 CHI at Crumlin had:
– 36,879 emergency attendances
– 16,398 day cases
– 10,102 inpatient admissions
– 55,130 outpatient attendances
– 8,802 surgical procedures
These are down on the previous year’s figures due to the effects of COVID-19 on services.
Finding new and better treatments and cures for childhood illnesses has always been central to the hospital’s work in partnership with the National Children’s Research Centre.
CHI at Crumlin has a long and proud history of educating children’s nurses. Each year, almost 400 nursing students undertake clinical placements in the hospital. These nurses come from Universities all over Ireland, the UK and EU. CHI at Crumlin also plays a leading role in training paediatric doctors and health care professionals including; physiotherapists, dieticians, laboratory scientists, medical social workers, orthoptists, occupational therapists, radiographers, speech and language therapists and physiologists.