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 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 104 |
| History | |
| Opened | 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h http://www.hse.ie/eng/Staff/FactFile/County_Information/Cork/Bantry%20Hospital/Bantry_General_Hospital.html
- ^ "The Workhouse in Bantry, Co. Cork". Workhouses. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ http://www.ptr.ie/Pages/report/PTR_Report_200911.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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.
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