The interim Emergency Department at Letterkenny Hospital is planned to reopen to ambulance admissions on a phased basis from 10.00 am on Saturday 17 August. Therefore patients should no longer attend Altnagelvin Hospital from 10.00 am on Saturday. Sean Murphy Hospital Manager briefed members of the media and public representatives today to announce the news and promote details of how the capacity of Emergency Department to treat patients will be extended over the coming weeks.
On August 12 an exhibition titled “A Swallow’s Tale in a Thousand Skies” opens in the Galway Arts Centre. The exhibition is the highlight of an art project which celebrates a year in dialysis at Merlin Park University Hospital and is open to the public from 10.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday and from 10.00am - 2.00pm on Saturdays until 31 August.
The Letterkenny Hospital Manager briefed members of the media at a press conference today (Friday 09 August). The conference gave an overview of the services that are currently being delivered in Letterkenny and an update on the restoration of services. The Modular Units to build a link corridor to the temporary radiology services are arriving on site today. This vital piece of engineering and construction work will take place over the coming days and is a critical stage in the restoration
Letterkenny General Hospital is working to restore an emergency medicine service at the hospital as soon as it is safe to do so.
Sean Murphy, Hospital Manager commented, “Patient safety and welfare is our paramount concern and we have been working round the clock to ensure that we continue to provide the maximum safe level of service and to minimise the disruption to all of our patients.
Galway University Hospitals has launched a new mobile app for Antimicrobial Prescribing Guidelines. This is to co-incide with the intake of 197 Non-Consultant Doctors at the hospital in July.
The Meet and Greet Volunteer Service at University Hospital Galway has been running very successfully for almost five years now, and staff and visitors have been wholehearted in their praise of the valuable work that the volunteers have been carrying out during that time. Two of the Meet and Greet Volunteers, Bregeen Cassidy and Ann O’Toole, have been working at the hospital for the last two and five years respectively. They signed up to be volunteers as they believed it would be a useful w
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents two exhibitions this year for Galway Arts Festival. ‘On Paper’ an exhibition by Kathleen Furey and ‘The Night Scene Series’ by Levi Hanes open at University Hospital Galway on Thursday, 18 July at 5.00pm. The exhibitions are part of the Galway Arts Festival programme and will take place in the Foyer, Arts Corridor and First Floor of UHG.
Three new non-Executive Directors of the Board of the Hospital Group for the West/North West have been approved by the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly. The three new members complete the Board, which now has eight non-executive members, four executive members and a chairman. The three new members (see biographies at the end) are:
Bill Maher, CEO of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospitals Group and Tony Canavan, Chief Operating Officer attended the Regional Health Forum Area West meeting in Galway today. Tony Canavan read a statement* with an update following the publication of the HSE National Incident Management Team report on 13 June.
Other topics covered during the meeting included the outpatient waiting list.
