Grade VI Section Officer, Support Services Manager, Mallow General Hospital Six Health Regions have been established within the HSE, on the basis of the geographical boundaries agreed by the Government in July 2019 and they will be operational from 2024.
Each Health Region will be tasked with population specific planning resourcing and delivery of health and social care services for the needs of its unique population.
This will result in improved accountability and governance in terms of finance and performance, while also bringing decision-making closer to the frontline.
Health Regions will enable and empower staff to provide services that are:
· Integrated, locally planned and delivered
· Easier to access and navigate
· Available closer to home
Health Regions are geographically-based units with clearly defined populations.
They align community and hospital services within specific areas.
The HSE will retain a strong but leaner central organisation, with more service provision developed at a local level.
The HSE South West health region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in Cork and Kerry.
HSE South West includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region.
This includes:
· South / South West Hospital Group S/SWHG
· Cork Kerry Community Healthcare CKCH
The Department of Population and Public Health is also now aligned with this health region.
Services in the South West health region HSE Services working within this region include:
· Acute Hospitals
· Primary care services
· Community services
· Social care services
· Health and social care professionals
· Voluntary sector services
South / South West Hospital Group and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare will become part of HSE South West health region from 3rd March, 2025.
Cork University Hospital (CUH) is a model 4 tertiary referral centre and University teaching hospital.
The hospital is a public hospital owned and managed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and is a member of the South/South West Hospital Group.
Cork University Hospital also forms part of the Cork University Hospitals Group (CUHG) which includes Mallow General Hospital and Bantry General Hospital.
Mallow General Hospital (MGH) is a Model 2 Hospital as part of the Cork University Hospital Group within the South / South West Hospital Group.
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, endocrinology, gastroenterology, ENT and urology.
In patient medical activity is supported by a Medical Assessment Unit and a High Dependency Unit.
MGH also provides elective Day surgery, Endoscopy, Injuries Unit, Outpatient department, Physiotherapy, and Radiology including CT scanning services and ultra sound scan.
Specialist Nursing includes Cardiology, Respiratory, Sleep, Diabetes, Haemovigilance, Infection Control, Tissue Viability, Care of the Older Adult.
MGH currently has one RANP in Cardiology and 2 cANP, one Injury Unit, one in ENT (shared with SIVH)
Mallow General Hospital Injury Unit (IU) was established during reconfiguration of hospital services following publication of the Smaller Hospitals Framework (HSE 2013a).
The IU Mallow General Hospital is one of 3 Injury Units within the Emergency Care Network (ECN) of Cork University Hospitals Group.
Our Primary Academic partner is University College Cork (UCC).
The group offers a wide range of educational programmes and conducts research within all the hospitals in the Group.