HEALTH MATTERS 67 west // News NEW HEALTH FACILITIES FOR NORTH CONNEMARA
NEW HEALTH FACILITIES in north Connemara were officially opened by former Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív, TD, in February. The facilities were the Primary Care Centre in Corr Na Móna and an extension to the Clonbur Primary Care Centre. The Corr Na Móna and Clonbur Primary Care Centres have full-time Public Health Nursing and GP services, along with facilities available for visiting services such as Community Welfare, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Services, Dietetics, Podiatry, and Home Help Services. In addition, both Primary Care Centres provide facilities for WESTDOC out-of-hours GP services. Clonbur Primary Care Centre also houses the local Day Care Centre, which provides a range of supports and recreational facilities to older people and people with disabilities in the community, including the meals-on-wheels service.
Health initiatives underway within the Clonbur and Corr Na Móna area include a pilot-integrated diabetes care pathway with University Hospital Galway and community cardiac testing.
LEADERS COMPLETE CLINICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
TWENTY TWO CLINICAL Nurse and Midwife leaders recently completed the second Royal College of Nursing Clinical Leadership Programme 2009/2010. They were facilitated by the Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit in the Mid West. The Clinical Nurse and Midwife leaders were from different clinical health service practice sites within HSE West. They developed their clinical leadership skills over the last 12 months by participating in the programme.
+ (l-R): mary Coyne, Home Help Co-ordinator; martina Abberton, Public Health Nurse; Loretta Walsh, Physiotherapist; Margaret Kineavy, Public Health Nurse; Sarah Lee, Occupational Therapist; Minister Ó Cuív; Dan Quaid, Community development; Brid Quinn, Assistant director of Public Health nursing; dr joe Curran, general Practitioner; Rosaleen Coyne, Home Help; Ciaran McDonagh, Community Welfare Officer; and Marie Prendergast, Transformation Development Officer.
+ (l-R): Hugh mcdaid, nurse manager, Acute mental Health unit; dr Cliff Haley, Clinical director, mental Health Services donegal; Councillor Ciaran Brogan; Tánaiste mary Coughlan Td, minister for Education and Science; michael Bermingham, HSE Estates manager; michael mcCole, Administrator, mental Health Services donegal; Michael Martin, HSE Project Manager; Dolores Conaghan, Friends of Letterkenny General Hospital; Siobhan Friel, Friends of Letterkenny General Hospital; Kevin Mills, Director of Nursing, Mental Health Services Donegal; Councillor niall Blaney; Cyril gallagher, Clerk of works; and john moloney, Td, minister for Equality, disability and Mental Health.
NEW ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH UNIT AT LETTERKENNY GENERAL HOSPITAL
+ Geraldine Shaw, Director of Nursing, Mid- western Regional Hospital limerick; joan Phelan, Area Director, Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit, HSE South; Francis Rodgers, Area Director HR; Margaret Murphy, Patient Advocate; Pat Harvey, Chairman of the Clinical Leadership Steering Committee; Tony Quilty, Acting General Manager PCCC Limerick; and Annette Connolly, HSE Clinical Leadership Facilitator.
joHn molonEy, TD, Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Children, turned the sod for the new Acute Mental Health Unit at Letterkenny General Hospital in April. The new Acute Mental Health Unit will
be responsible for providing elements of a comprehensive integrated psychiatric service for a defined catchment area of approximately 138,000 people. It will be particularly geared towards the needs of
young adults with mental illness (18-24 years), taking into account the disturbing increase in suicide in young men in recent years. The commencement of this project, coupled with the imminent commissioning of the Community Mental Health Team base in Letterkenny adjacent to the Primary Care Centre, marks a significant milestone in the advancement of Mental Health Services in Donegal, in line with the strategic Vision for Change policy document.
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