Mayo University Hospital
Health Service Executive
Mayo University Hospital
Shown in Ireland
Geography
Location	Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
Coordinates	53°51′07″N 9°18′12″W / 53.8519°N 9.3033°W / 53.8519; -9.3033
Organisation
Care system	HSE
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	332
History
Opened	1938
Links
Website	www.saolta.ie/hospital/muh

Mayo University Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Ollscoile Mhaigh Eo) is a general hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. It is managed by Saolta University Health Care Group.^[1]

History

The hospital has its origins in the Mayo County Hospital which was built on Westport Road in Castlebar and opened in October 1938.^[2] This facility developed into Mayo General Hospital.^[2] Taoiseach Enda Kenny opened a new Renal Dialysis Unit in December 2013.^[3] The hospital changed its name from Mayo General Hospital to Mayo University Hospital in November 2015.^[4]

Notable patients

Notable patients have included:

• Sir Ernst Boris Chain, died in the hospital on 12 August 1979. He was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.^[5]
• Eithne Kenny, mother of former Taoiseach Enda Kenny and wife of Henry Kenny, died there at the age of 93 on 26 November 2011.^[6][7]
• Actor Robert Shaw, died there on 28 August 1978 after suffering a heart attack at the side of the road in Tourmakeady, near the hospital.^[8]