Leopardstown Hospital is a publicly-funded hospital in Foxrock

Foxrock

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, Dublin, Ireland

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 offering healthcare to elderly patients and war veterans. Founded in 1917, it was originally a "hospital sanatorium" for the care of "officers or men of His Majesty's Navy and Army".

Facilities

The hospital is run by the Health Service Executive

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 and offers residential day care, a day centre, respite care and convalescent care for the elderly. The hospital has 197 beds.

In April 2008, Enda Kenny

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, leader of opposition party Fine Gael

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, used the hospital as an example of then-Taoiseach

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 Bertie Ahern

Bertie Ahern

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's failure to provide adequate healthcare.