Expansion plans for Cork’s Mercy hospital unveiled

A 1,000-space multi-storey carpark, a “Mercy Quarter” plaza, and a hospital two-and-a-half times the size of the existing facility are among proposals contained in a confidential document outlining expansion plans for the Mercy University Hospital (MUH).

The document, seen by the Irish Examiner, also envisages a pedestrian bridge connecting the MUH foyer to the Distillery Fields site on the opposite bank of the River Lee.

It also outlines plans for the pedestrianisation of Henry St in front of the hospital with a streetscape dotted with benches, trees, and appropriate lighting design. This would “release street space for pedestrians, ambulances and patient set-down”.