| Portiuncula Hospital | |
| Health Service Executive | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Ballinasloe, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Ireland |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 220 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1943 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland |
Portiuncula Hospital is a public hospital located in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland.[1] It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides in-patient and out-patient orthopaedic services for the population of East Galway, Roscommon, the Midlands and the Mid-West. In 2008, the hospital served 39,462 out-patients, and 11,387 in-patients, with an average stay of 4.4 nights. In 2008, 65.0% of all admissions were via the emergency department. The hospital saw 6,398 day cases and 2,168 live births in the same year.[1]
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The hospital provides 195 in-patient beds and 25 day-case beds. In-patient services include general medicine, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, oncology, general surgery, dental surgery, maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, paediatric surgery, urology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, neonatology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, and radiology.[1]
As of April 2009,[2] the National Treatment Purchase Fund listed the following waiting times for procedures:
Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 80% satisfactory in 2005,[3] rising to 82% in 2006.[4] Hospital-acquired infection affected 3.8% of patients in 2007, with a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rate of 0.06 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.[1]