Hospice & Palliative Care

Marymount Hospice,
Marymount Hospice provides the specialist palliative care service for Cork City & County.

It is a multi-disciplinary service, which strives to meet the needs of patients and their families when illness is at an advanced stage. Palliative Care is available to patients of all ages.
Care may be delivered in a variety of settings. These include the In-Patient specialist unit, the Day Care service or at home supported by the specialist Home Care service.

Marymount Hospice is situated within St. Patrick's Hospital at Curraheen, Cork City (021/4501201) and is the base for the delivery of a comprehensive palliative care service.

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. (World Health Organisation, 2002)

For further information contact;

hospice@spmm.ie