| Bantry General Hospital | |
| Health Service Executive | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Bantry, County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 104 |
| Links | |
| 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]
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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]
Below are waiting times for procedures at Bantry General Hospital, as reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
As of November 2009[2]:
As of April 2009[1]:
Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 82% satisfactory in 2005,[3] rising to 88% in 2006.[4] The hospital had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rate of 0.31 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.[1]