Hospital’s operations to transfer across city

The operations of Shanakiel Hospital are to be moved to the former Cork Medical Centre in Mahon in a move which will see the VHI provide cover for patients using the state-of-the-art €90m facility.

In a carefully choreographed transaction, the Mahon hospital — mothballed in early 2011 with the loss of 75 jobs — is expected to reopen in the coming months. All of the Shanakiel Hospital’s functions will be transferred from Sunday’s Well in the west of the city to Mahon in the east.

The new hospital will be run by the Mater Private, which has been working, since its closure, with the original developers John Cleary Developments to reopen the facility at City Gate.