25 Step-Down Beds To Come To Cahercalla In Coming Weeks

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25 step-down beds are to be put in place in Cahercalla Community Hospital in the coming weeks. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announced during a visit to University Hospital Limerick in March that as part of an effort to ease pressure on the Dooradoyle facility, additional community rehabilitation unit beds would be put in place in Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's by the end of September. During the same visit, it was announced that the opening hours of Ennis's medical assessment unit would be extended to 8am to midnight by the end of this month but this measure has yet to be implemented. Responding to Inagh Green Party Senator Róisín Garvey in the Seanad, Minister of State at the Department of Health Mary Butler says the focus is now on operationalising the 25 beds at Cahercalla.