About CHI at Tallaght
Previously known as the National Children’s Hospital, CHI at Tallaght is the oldest of the three children’s hospitals in Dublin. Located in Tallaght since 1998, the original hospital was founded in 1821, almost 200 years ago.
CHI at Tallaght provides a secondary general paediatric service to south-west, west and central Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow.
It also provides a national tertiary service for:
- Respiratory medicine
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Diabetes and endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Developmental medicine
- Paediatric dentistry
- Neuro-disability.
In 2016, CHI at Tallaght opened the first paediatric dedicated short stay observation unit in the country. The next development for CHI at Tallaght is the new Urgent Care Centre, which will give a dedicated home to paediatric services in the Tallaght area for generations to come.
CHI at Tallaght has three paediatric wards and a high dependency unit together with dedicated specialised paediatric radiology, out patient and emergency departments and operating theatre.
CHI at Tallaght cares for more than 60,000 children per year. In 2020 the hospital had:
- 11,489 emergency department attendances
- 1,427 day cases
- 2,370 inpatient admissions
- 20,218 outpatient attendances
- 1,093 surgical procedures performed.
To help the adult services manage COVID-19 demands, CHI at Tallaght transferred the emergency department and the inpatient beds to Tallaght University Hospital from the end of March to the start of September.