Bantry General Hospital

Bantry General Hospital
Health Service Executive
Geography
Location Bantry, County Cork, Ireland
Coordinates 51°40′35″N 9°26′59″W / 51.676415°N 9.449671°W / 51.676415; -9.449671Coordinates: 51°40′35″N 9°26′59″W / 51.676415°N 9.449671°W / 51.676415; -9.449671
Organisation
Care system HSE
Hospital type General
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 104
History
Founded 1959
Links
Website Bantry General Hospital
Lists Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland

Bantry General Hospital is a public[1] hospital located in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department,[1] for the population of West Cork. In 2008, the hospital served 11,302 out-patients, and 2,953 in-patients, with an average stay of 9.2 nights.[1] 86.1% of admissions were made via the accident and emergency department. The hospital saw 1,249 day cases in the same year.[1]

The Bantry Hospital opened on the former site of the Bantry workhouse buildings in 1959.[2]

Services

The hospital provides 104 beds, of which 80 are in-patient acute beds, while 6 are reserved for acute day cases.[1] A further 18 beds are for psychiatric services. In-patient services include general medicine, general surgery, accident and emergency, geriatrics, palliative medicine, rehabilitation medicine, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, urology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, radiology.[1]

Waiting times

Below are waiting times for procedures at Bantry General Hospital, as reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Surgical

As of November 2009:[3]

  • adult patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
  • adult patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
  • adult patients waiting over 12 months: 0
  • child patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
  • child surgical patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
  • child surgical patients waiting over 12 months: 0

Medical

As of April 2009:[1]

  • adult patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
  • adult patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
  • adult patients waiting over 12 months: 0
  • child patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
  • child patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
  • child patients waiting over 12 months: 0

Hygiene

Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 82% satisfactory in 2005,[4] rising to 88% in 2006.[5] The hospital had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rate of 0.31 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 http://www.hse.ie/eng/Staff/FactFile/County_Information/Cork/Bantry%20Hospital/Bantry_General_Hospital.html
  2. ↑ "The Workhouse in Bantry, Co. Cork". Workhouses. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ↑ http://www.ptr.ie/Pages/report/PTR_Report_200911.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  4. ↑ "Report on a National Acute Hospitals Hygiene Audit undertaken on behalf of the National Hospitals Office, Health Service Executive" (PDF). Health Service Executive. October 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  5. ↑ "Report on the Second National Acute Hospitals Hygiene Audit" (PDF). Health Service Executive. June 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.