The hospitals in the Saolta University Health Care Group* are deferring all but very urgent inpatient, day surgery, diagnostics tests and outpatient appointments from today, Monday March 16th until further notice. This is to ensure that the hospital has the necessary capacity to deal with any increase in suspected and confirmed COVID 19 cases.
All hospitals in the Saolta Group are implementing visiting restrictions from this evening, Friday March 6th. The restrictions will continue into next week and will be kept under review.
These restrictions are being put in place as an infection control measure and will apply to:
Roisin Lennon, the Registered Advanced Midwife Practitioner with the Maternity Services at Sligo University Hospital received an Innovation Award commendation at the recent All Ireland Maternity and Midwifery Festival Awards.
The Awards recognise outstanding achievement and commitment by midwifery and maternity staff and Roisin was nominated by the women she cares for in her clinic for her innovative practice and commitment above and beyond the call of duty.
The visiting restrictions at Sligo University Hospital remain in place this week.
Management at Sligo University Hospital are requesting that members of the public do not visit the hospital due to a number of cases of diarrhoea and vomiting in the hospital.
Since 2007, Mayo University Hospital (MUH) has enabled over 160 physiotherapy students from Ireland and overseas to undertake clinical placements as part of their third level qualification. The hospital has a formal arrangement with the University of Limerick and the Singapore Institute of Technology, via a partnership with Trinity College Dublin, to facilitate up to 18 student placements each academic year.
Nadia Finneran, a native of Roscommon Town has become the second Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) in Emergency Nursing at Roscommon Injury Unit which is located in the Urgent Care Centre at Roscommon University Hospital.
RANPs are the highest level of clinical experts in the nursing profession in Ireland today.
Construction will shortly begin on a new three-storey radiation oncology centre at University Hospital Galway. The facility will include seven radiotherapy treatment vaults, a brachytherapy suite, two CT rooms, on-treatment support and ancillary physics, treatment planning and administration facilities.
University Hospital Galway was named winner of the ‘BIG Switch Off’ competition for a staff awareness campaign during the month of October and the reduction of energy consumption over the October bank holiday weekend last year.
Portiuncula University Hospital is inviting parents and their families who have experienced bereavement through the death of a child or who have lost a baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, still birth or shortly after birth, to a Service of Remembrance which will take place in the hospital on Monday 03 February.
The Infection Prevention and Control Team at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) are delivering a rolling schedule of hand hygiene training which has resulted in 100% attendance by the Medical Staff and an overall total of 98.41% attendance by all staff of Mayo University Hospital.
