The Coombe Women’s Hospital is facing a multimillion-euro bill after a High Court judge ruled it is liable for catastrophic injuries suffered by a boy minutes after his birth at the Dublin hospital. Had Eoin Dunne been effectively ventilated nine…
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Patients at serious risk of infection in six hospitals, health watchdog audit reveals
Patients are at serious risk of infection in almost half the hospitals tested for hygiene by the State’s health watchdog, new reports reveal. Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) inspectors found that Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Portiuncula Hospital in…
Tagged with: Infection
Posted in Cavan, Connolly, Coombe, Hiqa, Hospitals/Clinics, Mayo General, Mercy University, Midwest, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Patients, Portiuncula, Roscommon, South Tipperary, St Luke's Kilkenny
Posted in Cavan, Connolly, Coombe, Hiqa, Hospitals/Clinics, Mayo General, Mercy University, Midwest, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Patients, Portiuncula, Roscommon, South Tipperary, St Luke's Kilkenny
Hospital: Some patient food ‘is unacceptable’
A leading maternity hospital is reviewing the quality of food it gives mothers after admitting some patient meals are “unacceptable”. The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital made the move after images of meals there were posted online. (Examiner) >
Internal reviews at the Coombe maternity hospital
INTERNAL reviews at the Coombe maternity hospital in Dublin show the two maternal deaths at the unit last autumn were due to natural causes. Health Minister James Reilly said the two deaths, which happened within 48 hours of each other, were due…
Coombe plan stresses hospital savings
The master of the Coombe, Dr Chris Fitzpatrick, said that in relation to land costs on the proposed site, formal consultations with a property developer, Dublin City Council and Nama had taken place. “Notwithstanding the cost of this site, which…
Coombe gets female master
[From Independent >] Dr Sharon Sheehan will take the helm at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in Dublin. The first female master of a maternity hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony, was appointed to Holles St Hospital earlier this year. Dr Sheehan, a…
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Hospitals have ‘duty of care’ on abortion, say women
Three women who had to travel to Britain to obtain abortions have written to maternity hospitals here telling them they have a duty of care to people in similar circumstances. “We know that legally your hands are tied in the…
Tagged with: Maternity, Obstetrics
Posted in Coombe, Doctors, Hospitals/Clinics, National Matenity, Patients, Rotunda
Posted in Coombe, Doctors, Hospitals/Clinics, National Matenity, Patients, Rotunda
Coombe sends proposal for children’s hospital to Reilly
A PROPOSAL to locate the new children’s hospital on a 20-acre site near the Coombe and St James’s hospitals was sent to the Minister for Health James Reilly yesterday. The Coombe Women Infants University Hospital, which made the proposal, said…
Muiris Houston on options for new national children’s hospital
One solution that must now be considered is Tallaght hospital. It has the space, and if the Coombe women’s hospital were to move there, the minimum criteria of a co-located maternity hospital is met, with the added bonus of adult…
