As overcrowding continues at University Hospital Limerick the CEO Collette Cowan has revealed that a management company has been selected to run the recently built Community Nursing Home in Nenagh as a Sub-Acute Bed Facility for UHL.
There were 102 admitted patients on trolleys yesterday at UHL – part of a national total of 445 Patients on trolleys as compiled by the Irish Nurses and Midwives organisation.
Bartra Property Company will take over the CNU which was completed in late 2023 but never came into use as staff had not been recruited.
It was intended that the existing residents(approximately 25) and staff at St Conlan’s Nursing home would move into the new facility.
This move is now postponed until new permanent bed capacity at UHL currently under construction (71) and planning (112) is available.
The Bartra Healthcare Group has wide experience in operating Nursing Homes across Ireland. Responding to Tipperary Councillor Seamus Morris, Collette Cowan CEO of the ULHG, says that the terms of the contract are in the process of being finalised and that mobilisation of services at the Nenagh building will commence over the next number of weeks. No specific date has been indicated for the building to begin receiving patients.
