HEALTH MATTERS 65 west // News
ROSCOMMON PROJECTS SCOOP TWO AWARDS
Two RoSCommon PRojECTS recently won prizes at the ARAMARK Healthcare Innovation Awards held in dublin, ‘when nature Calls! Managing Incontinence Programme’ and the ‘melting Pot’ initiative. The Incontinence Programme has improved continence care for children and adults by redesigning the way services are provided and delivered in all primary care and community settings, as well as private nursing homes across the county.
+ Karen Myrent of Quest Diagnostics, Fiona Garvey, Quality Co-ordinator, HSE West, Roscommon; Andrew McDonnell, Manager Clorina House Training Centre, Roscommon; Adrian Brend, manager of Melting Pot; Eamon Hannan, Manager Support Services, HSE west, Roscommon; and Áine Brady TD, Minister for Older People and Health Promotion.
Meanwhile, the Melting Pot project is a unique partnership of the HSE, Local Development Agencies and Voluntary Sector Support Services. The Melting Pot operates as an internet café and charity shop, providing a place to meet in a relaxed and friendly environment for a range of specified target groups.
NEW CRITICAL CARE UNIT FOR DOORADOYLE HOSPITAL
A NEW b35m Critical Care unit is to be built at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick. The development will be a major step forward in the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the Mid West, and will follow radical improvements in the provision of emergency care, diagnostics and acute surgery. HSE Chief Executive, Professor Brendan drumm, said the developments now underway in the region are setting a headline for the rest of the country. The new unit will link with the existing hospital and will consist of a six-storey block over two levels of basement car parking. A new 12-bed intensive care
unit will be located on the first floor along with supporting accommodation. The second floor will provide a new 14-bed high-dependency unit, while the third floor will provide a new 16-bed coronary care unit. The fourth floor will accommodate a cardiac non-invasive investigations unit along with two catherisation laboratories and a nine-bed day ward. The ground floor will be available for later development while the fifth floor will be required to accommodate the building services plant. Strong emphasis will be placed on the segregation of the different users of the building, very important from an infection control perspective.
+ The HSE contract signing for the b35 million Critical Care Unit at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, limerick. (l-R): joe McLoughlin, Director, john Sisk & Son; Brian Gilroy, HSE National Director of Estates; john o’Brien, HSE National Director; and dr Paul Burke, mwRH.
+ joan o’Connor, Clinical nurse manager, Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; Donal Mitchell, Senior Buyer, Procurement unit, HSE west; joan O’Shaughnessy from ARAMARK Healthcare; Margaret Tiernan, Continence Advisor, HSE West, Roscommon; Dympna McDonnell, Clinical Nurse Manager, Aras Naomh Chaolain, Castlerea; Elaine mannion, Continence Advisor, ontex ltd; john nally, Supplies Officer, HSE West, Roscommon; and Aine Brady Td, minister for older People and Health Promotion.
CHILD SAFETY INFORMATION EVENING
DOCTORS AND OTHER specialists from Sligo General Hospital recently spoke at a Child Safety Information Evening organised by the hospital’s Research and Education Foundation, attended by over 100 parents and people working in childcare. The next open public meeting being organised by the hospital’s Research and Education Foundation will be a two-day Men’s Health Event.
+ At the Sligo General Hospital Child Safety Information Evening, (l-R): Tom mcgoldrick, Senior Paramedic HSE West; Dr Dara Gallagher, Consultant Paediatrician; janette oman Power, operational Ambulance Officer; Mr Fergal Hickey, Consultant in Emergency Medicine; Dr Hilary Greaney, Consultant Paediatrician; and Deirdre Staunton, Resuscitation Training Officer.
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