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Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture in partnership with Portiuncula University Hospital and Saolta University Health Care Group brings vocal performances to patients’ bedsides virtually

Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 are pleased to present Viriditas by Ceara Conway as part of The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway’s European Capital of Culture 2020. Viriditas is part of Saolta Arts’ wider programme The Deepest Shade of Green where nature and familiar landscapes of the West are brought into the wards, corridors, and waiting rooms of Saolta’s hospitals and used to imaginatively escape the clinical environment.

Saolta Hospital Group partners with NUI Galway to roll out innovative Clinical Placement Digital Health Solution

A University Hospital Galway Medical Consultant has developed a “Clinical Pass” smartphone app to allow healthcare students across the region to undertake clinical placement. Prof Derek O’Keeffe Consultant Physician University Hospital Galway, working with colleagues in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in NUI Galway and Renville Informatics has developed a smartphone based Clinical Pass App to facilitate clinical placement for health care students.

Update in relation to the Review of the Gynaecology Service (with a particular focus on post-menopausal bleeding pathways) at Letterkenny University Hospital - August 2020

The Saolta University Health Care Group has now made the independent Review of the Gynaecology Service (with a particular focus on post-menopausal bleeding pathways) at Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) available to patients or families of patients where delays were identified in the provision of their care.

Upgrade works at Mayo University Hospital commencing in August

Mayo University Hospital is delighted to announce that upgrade works to A Ward, B Ward and the Paediatric Ward are due to commence on 17 August. The works involve replacing and upgrading the windows on these wards and replacing all the toilets and showers on A Ward and B Ward. The works are due to be completed by the end of October.

Galway University Hospitals deliver over 36,000 virtual outpatient consultations

Galway University Hospitals deliver over 36,000 virtual outpatient consultations

Clinical teams at Galway University Hospitals have delivered over 36,000 virtual outpatient consultations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elective/Non Urgent Radiology services resuming in Mayo University Hospital

Elective/Non Urgent Radiology services resuming in Mayo University Hospital

The team at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) are continuing to work towards the resumption of services which had paused or were restricted over the last number of months due to COVID-19.

As part of this work, the Radiology Department are putting measures in place to ensure that patients can access plain radiography/ ‘x-ray’, MRI, CT, Ultrasound and other diagnostic and interventional procedures in a safe way.

Saolta e-Newsletter Issue 42 COVID-19 Special Edition

Welcome to the Summer 2020 COVID-19 special edition of the Saolta University Health Care Group newsletter.  This is a COVID-19 special edition looking back at the last number of months.

Click here to download a copy of the Saolta e-Newsletter Issue 42 Summer 2020

Statement from the HSE Health Services, Local Authorities and An Garda Síochána in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon in relation to the management of COVID-19

Statement from the HSE Health Services, Local Authorities and An Garda Síochána in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon in relation to the management of COVID-19

Hospital, Community Healthcare West Executive Officers, Director of Public Health in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, Chief Executives of the Local Authorities in the region and the Chief Superintendents of An Garda Síochána today urged the public to follow the public health advice to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is particularly important over the coming weeks as the number of visitors to our region continues to increase.

RUH appoints First Acute Medicine Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner

RUH appoints First Acute Medicine Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Audrey Dalton Gleeson has been appointed as the first Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) in Acute Medicine at the Medical Assessment Unit, Roscommon University Hospital. RANPs are the highest level of clinical experts in the nursing profession in Ireland today.

Patient 81 days in ICU discharged from Portiuncula University Hospital

Patient 81 days in ICU discharged from Portiuncula University Hospital

A mother of two children and a grandmother of two, 66 year old Rose Mannion originally from Cloghan, County Offaly and now living in Lorrha in North Tipperary was admitted to Portiuncula University Hospital on 28 March with COVID-19. Rose spent a total of 81 days in the Intensive Care Unit between Portiuncula University Hospital and University Hospital Galway.

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