The Emergency Department (ED) at Letterkenny General Hospital returned to normal after three hours off-call at 11pm on Tuesday night when a clean up was completed in the reception and administrative areas that had experienced a very low level of flooding following torrential rain in the Letterkenny area. Clinical areas in the ED and hospital services in general were not affected.
An investigation has commenced into the flooding at Letterkenny General Hospital last night (August 5) following torrential rain in the Letterkenny area.
The road and hospital car park adjacent to the Emergency Department (ED) became flooded and a low level of water leaked into the ED’s reception and administrative areas. The hospital’s ED went off call for three hours from 8pm to 11pm to expedite the clean up after which services returned to normal.
Representatives of Lodge 14 Galway, members of the Freemasons of Ireland donating teddies to the Emergency Department at Galway University Hospitals for staff to give to children who are anxious about being in hospital from left: Mark Charles; Basil Fenton, Provincial Grand Master South Connaught ; Fionnuala Naughton, Staff Nurse at the Emergency Department; Stephen Wright, Secretary of Lodge 41; and Brian Maloney.
“The Amulet” Exhibition Tour opens at Galway Arts Centre on 01 August 2014 with a panel discussion at 4pm in Áras Na Gael, 45 Dominick Street Lower, Galway.
Amulets are special objects often hidden away in drawers and cupboards which mark a significant time, occasion or person in our lives.
An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD officially opened the new Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Unit at University Hospital Galway today, Monday 28 July.
The new unit is a dedicated specialist facility for day care and outpatient services for children with cystic fibrosis where they can be treated in an optimal physical environment to reduce the risk of infection, which can have a serious impact for patients with CF.
Mayo General Hospital (MGH) is hosting a Patient Safety and Quality Symposium on Thursday 31 July in the GMIT Castlebar Campus.
The symposium will highlight practices and initiatives aimed at improving patient safety and achieving high quality care for patients. The symposium is aimed at health care providers and staff working in hospitals and has attracted delegates from throughout the West/North West Hospitals Group and from hospitals across the country.
The End of Life Care Committee in Galway University Hospitals (GUH) held a very successful information day to raise awareness of the work of both the committee and the Hospice Friendly Hospitals (HFH) Programme yesterday, Monday 21 July in the foyer of University Hospital Galway.
An exhibition titled “An + Aisthēsis” by Karen Conway is on display on the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway from Monday 14 July to Saturday 23 August as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.
The West/North West Hospitals Group and NUI Galway, in partnership with EY, recently organised a high level workshop in NUI Galway to promote greater understanding of the legislative and governance structures that will need to be developed to facilitate hospital groups evolving into ‘Trusts’. Key leaders from the UK looked at lessons learned within the NHS Foundation Trust system and shared their experience with senior health officials, policy makers and hospital managers in Ireland.
At an extraordinary meeting of the board of the West / North West Hospitals Group on Monday June 16th, board member Dr John Killeen agreed to take on the voluntary role of interim chair pending the imminent appointment of a new chairperson by the Minister for Health.
Dr Killeen joined the board in January 2013. He is an engineer by profession and a native of County Roscommon who became an Honorary Freeman of Galway City in 2012.
