Mallow General Hospital (MGH) is a Model 2 hospital as defined by the Acute Medicine Programme.
MGH serves a population of North Cork and surrounding area with a population of circa 90,000.
Mallow General Hospital is a 71 bed Acute General Hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and day patient services.
The services provided in the hospital include general medicine, cardiology, respiratory, gerontology, gastroenterology, dermatology and palliative care.
Inpatient medical activity is supported by a Medical Assessment Unit and a High Dependency Unit.
Mallow General Hospital also provides elective Day Surgery, and Endoscopy.
There is an Injuries Unit, Outpatients Department, Physiotherapy and Radiology department.
Specialist nursing includes Cardiology, Respiratory, Diabetes, and Tissue Viability, Care of the Older Adult, Haemovigilance and Infection Control.
Surgical planned procedures include General Surgery, Urology, ENT, Vascular (open, laser/radio frequency) and Dental Special Needs Adult.
A Pre-Assessment Clinic supports the surgical day service
The hospital is currently undergoing major infrastructural development with new inpatient accommodation under construction.
(The Health Regions Implementation involves the internal reorganisation of the HSE into six operational regions with responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services within their respective defined geographies.
These new arrangements are fundamental to the delivery of Sláintecare reforms and aim to improve the health service's ability to deliver timely integrated care to patients and service users, care that is planned and funded in line with their needs at regional and local level.
Mallow General Hospital is a Model 2 Hospital as part of the Cork University Hospital Group within the South / South West Hospital Group which will transition to the Cork Kerry Healthcare Region in March 2025.
Purpose of Post The Director of Nursing 3, Assistant is responsible for the standard of nursing care and will lead coordinate and manage the safe delivery of the nursing service in the hospital.
To participate in the out of hours Nursing Management rota to include weekends and night duty.
To cover designated areas in the absence of the assigned ADON as required..
Informal Enquiries Name: Ms. Patricia Moloney – Director of Nursing, MGH
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