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Mayo University Hospital
MUH Committed To Excellence
We aim to achieve excellence through securing meaningful patient engagement from the bed side to the management table; driven by engaged staff from all disciplines and grades, who are empowered by a commitment of support from senior management, for continuous quality improvement.
MUH is a 300 beds Model 3 Acute hospital with 5 directorates. For more information, see the "Introduction" tab below.
Main Phone Number: +353 (0)94 9021733
The Medical Directorate
The Medical Directorate incorporates Respiratory, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Gerontology, Acute medical and supportive Cardiology. These make up more than 9000 inpatient discharges a year. MUH has a busy Emergency department with >37,000 attendances per annum. We also have a Renal Dialysis unit (watch short video) and Oncology Day unit that compounds all its own chemotherapy locally. Its Coronary Care unit is incorporated into the joint ICU/ CCU. MUH has an Endoscopy unit with medical / surgical endoscopy 5 days a week. With weekly visiting service for Dermatology, Haematology, Oncology and Nephrology.
The Peri-Operative Directorate
The Peri-Operative Directorate incorporates General Surgery and Orthopaedics. We have a visiting service in outpatient ENT. We have a 4 room operating theatres and minor procedures.
The Women’s Health and Children's Directorate
The Women’s Health and Children's Directorate incorporates an obstetric department with < 1700 births a year and a paediatric and special care baby unit. We have just recently set up a Paediatric Decision Unit to fact track children out of the ED and direct assessment by appropriate senior decision maker. Please Click Here to watch a short video about the MUH Paediatric Department.
The Radiology Directorate
The Radiology Directorate is leading the way nationally with integration with primary care and social care regarding direct access and service delivery in plain radiology and Ultrasound in Primary care centres. Please Click Here to watch a short video about the MUH Radiology Department.
The Laboratory Directorate
The Laboratory Directorate is a very strong department with a significant history of accreditation in all modalities.
MUH Framework for Improving Quality
MUH is committed to delivering high quality patient centred services. Click Here to find out how we are achieving this through the application of the HSE’s Framework for Improving Quality 2016.
Help Us to Help You
As a patient, staff or member of the public we hope you will find this website a useful means of engagement with your Hospital.
We welcome and encourage feedback from you on the level of service we provide.
Please submit your feedback to yoursay@hse.ie which will be redirected back to Mayo University Hospital.
Staff Feedback
We also welcome and encourage feedback from our staff. Staff may email their feedback to MUHStaff.FeedBack@hse.ie
Current Vacancies at MUH
If you are interested in joining our well established teams please Click Here for further information
Car Parking Charges
- There is a fixed charge of €2 for the first 3 hours
- Every additional hour is charged at €1 per hour
- The maximum daily charge is €5
- Weekly tickets may be purchased in the hospital foyer. These cost €15.
The ticket machines only accept cash or coins, with change given. Cards are not currently accepted at the ticket machines.
Mayo University Hospital Map
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The Saolta University Health Care Group provides acute and specialist hospital services to the West and North West of Ireland – counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and adjoining counties.
Saolta University Health Care Group comprises of 6 hospitals across 7 sites:
The Group's Academic Partner is NUI Galway.
Vision
Our vision is to be a leading academic Hospital Group providing excellent integrated patient-centred care delivered by skilled caring staff.
Saolta Guiding Principles
Care - Compassion - Trust - Learning
Our guiding principles are to work in partnership with patients and other healthcare providers across the continuum of care to:
- Deliver high quality, safe, timely and equitable patient care by developing and ensuring sustainable clinical services to meet the needs of our population.
- Deliver integrated services across the Saolta Group Hospitals, with clear lines of responsibility, accountability and authority, whilst maintaining individual hospital site integrity.
- Continue to develop and improve our clinical services supported by education, research and innovation, in partnership with NUI Galway and other academic partners.
- Recruit, retain and develop highly-skilled multidisciplinary teams through support, engagement and empowerment.
Saolta Strategy 2019-2023
We have developed a five year strategy which outlines the vision and framework for the Group’s strategic development from 2019 to 2023.
We are committed to ensuring that our patients are at the centre of all service design, development and delivery. Over the five years of the strategy we will further develop our services, both clinical and organisational based around seven key themes: Quality and Patient Safety; Patient Access; Governance and Integration; Skilled Caring Staff; Education Research and Innovation; eHealth and Infrastructure. These will be our key areas of focus to enable us to meet the future needs of our patients.
We have identified 20 priority projects across the Group which are aligned with Sláintecare’s goals. They include a number of clinical and organisational projects which are focused on further improving services for our patients and staff. We will continue to work very closely with our colleagues in the community both Community Healthcare West and Community Health Organisation 1 in the North West to deliver more streamlined care to our patients in line with the national focus of bringing services closer to patients.
A key theme within this strategy and its successful implementation is the development of Managed Clinical and Academic Networks. While the tertiary referral centre for the Group is University Hospital Galway, it is essential that all our hospitals work more closely together in delivering services to address the challenges facing us across our region. These networks will ensure that specialities in individual hospitals will no longer work in isolation but as a networked team which will improve clinical quality and patient safety. It will also support collective learning/sharing of expertise and will be supported by education, training, research and audit programmes. It will result in safer, standardised and more sustainable services for our patients and improved recruitment and retention of staff.
To read the full strategy, click here.