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The Adelaide Health Foundation

The Adelaide Health Foundation is a voluntary independent charitable organisation which seeks to advance healthcare that is centred upon the dignity of every human being and that provides equal access to quality healthcare based upon clinical need.

The Foundation nominates students to be admitted to the Adelaide School of Nursing to undertake their BSc Nursing (General) in Trinity College, Dublin and administers a Bursary Scheme for eligible students.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to be an independent not-for-profit health foundation that seeks to advance healthcare in a way that is:

centred upon the dignity of every human being
treats mind, body and spirit holistically, and
provides equal access to healthcare based upon the basis of need.

Statements of values

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We will be loyal to our vision and to our objectives.

In so doing, we will specifically welcome participation in our activities by persons of any denomination or none who share our fundamental principles.

Our fundamental principles shall be:

Equal access to equal quality health care for all persons with particular attention to the deprived and dispossessed.
Support for minorities and the dispossessed.
Respect for the dignity of the individual by treating and caring for them as they wish.
Support of the right of all to all information relevant to health without pre-conditions.
Independence in opinion and action, including but not confined to the fields of ethics and genetics.
Public and patient involvement in healthcare, thus supporting the voluntary principle of active citizenship in promoting the common good.
Evidence-based healthcare provision.
The promotion of excellence in education and research.
Engagement with our local community.

Mission and purpose

This is defined in our principal object in our Memorandum of Association as:

“The advancement of medicine, medical care and medical science and the practice thereof including the advancement of medical and nursing education and towards this object to maintain a means for charitable participation in the health services of Ireland by members of the Christian Churches which adhere to Protestant traditions for the benefit of all people and especially the poor of every denomination”.

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History

1839
1858
1859
1866
1868
1884
1904
1919
1920
1960
1961
1965
1977
1980
1985
1996
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2009
2011
2014

1839

Adelaide Hospital, Founded by Dr. Albert Walsh, opens at 43 Bride Street, Dublin
1858

Adelaide Hospital re-opens at Peter Street, Dublin, in new, purpose-built Hospital
1859

Adelaide School of Nursing Founded
1866

Adelaide opens first skin clinic
1868

Adelaide opens first gynaecological unit
1884

Sir Kendal Franks introduces antiseptic surgery
1904

Bacterial control of milk pioneered
1919

Dr. Kathleen Lynn pioneers preventative medicine with children
1920

Adelaide granted Royal Charter
1960

Adelaide, which up to this date was entirely supported by voluntary funds, receives first annual State payments for Hospital Services
1961

Adelaide joins with other hospitals in Federation Dublin Voluntary Hospitals under new Act.
1965

Adelaide first hospital to open intensive-care unit.
1977

Adelaide approves in principle moving to Tallaght
1980

New operating theatres open in Peter Street
1985

New design approved for hospital at Tallaght
1996

Society establishes Nursing Development Fund
Adelaide merges with the Meath Hospital (1753) and the National children’s Hospital (1821) under amended Adelaide Charter
1998

New Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin Incorporating The National Children’s Hospital opens at Tallaght.
2000

New University Clinical Sciences building opens with Society support
2001

Student Nurse Bursary Scheme launched
2002

Women’s Preventative Healthcare Unit launched
2003

New Initiatives Grants Scheme Established
2004

First Family Risk Assessment Clinic for breast services established
2009

Health Policy Initiative established in conjunction with Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin.
150th Anniversary of the Adelaide School of Nursing
2011

Community Healthcare Initiative Scheme established
2014

Adelaide Health Foundation becomes the working name of the organisation