Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services, Harold's Cross and Blackrock Hospice

Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross was founded in 1879 by the Religious Sisters of Charity as Ireland’s first Hospice facility and has since played a pivotal role in the development of hospice and palliative care in Ireland.  Palliative Care  aims to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of patients at the end of their lives and also supports their families both before and after the death of a loved one. Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services now provides three specialist services for patients in two locations, Harold’s Cross and Blackrock (Hospice): 

o         Palliative Care/end of life care

o         Gerontology/extended care, respite and rehabilitation for older people

o         Rheumatology/specialist rehabilitation and treatment 

Funded by the HSE, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services relies on fundraising, donations and legacies to maintain and develop the highest quality of service to those in our care.  Recent major capital programmes funded by donors included the Education and Research Centre and Anna Gaynor House, a 100 bedded residential unit (part funded by the HSE) and completed in August 2009.