St Patrick’s Hospital to Lose 39 Beds

Staff from South Tipp General Hospital and St Patricks Hospital pictured at a meeting in St Patrick's last Thursday to announce the transfer of the rehabilition Unit from St Patricks to Our Lady's Hospital. L/R. Cllr. Jack Crowe, Dr. Willie Ryan, Mary Prendergast, ( Director of Nursing SPH) Dr. Christina Donelan, Dr. Isweri Pillay, Kate Sadler. Back L/R. T.J Giwa, Alice Ryan Cllr. Tom Wood, Catherine Collins, Gothandan Ramalingan, Aileen Walsh, Pauline Lowry, Eimear O'Connor, Rosari Cully, Margaret Long, Paddy O'Donnell, Maura O'Brien, Joan Brosnan, Majella Hall.

Published on 06/03/2013 09:53

ST Patrick’s Hospital for the elderly in Cashel is to lose 39 beds, most of them transferring to Our Lady’s Hospital nearby.

The shock announcement comes following a HIQA inspection which found “serious environmental issues” with the respite service beds, along with an above-average absenteeism rate among staff, heard Cashel Town Council on Monday.

Mayor Séan McCarthy – a member of the South East Regional Forum of the HSE - was told they were to discuss the service plan for the whole region, including South Tipperary, at a meeting last Thursday (March 28). At around 6pm he received a message from a HSE manager, explaining that there would be “radical changes” at St Patrick’s. These include transferring staff and patients associated with 39 beds out of the hospital for health and safety reasons.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) had found “serious environmental issues” in relation to the “continuing care for beds, and respite service, and the rehab components.” “The HSE was presented with a situation of doing what HIQA says,” announced Dr McCarthy. “It’s a question of 39 beds being totally closed.”

Full story in this week’s Tipperary Star.

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St Patrick’s Hospital to Lose 39 Beds

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