Hospital type General Number of beds 104 | Phone +353 27 50133 Care system Health Service Executive | |
Location Bantry, County Cork, Ireland Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency Website Bantry General Hospital Lists Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland Address Carrignagat, Bantry, Co. Cork, P75 DX93, Ireland | ||
Bantry General Hospital is a public 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, 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. 86.1% of admissions were made via the accident and emergency department. The hospital saw 1,249 day cases in the same year.
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Services
The hospital provides 104 beds, of which 80 are in-patient acute beds, while 6 are reserved for acute day cases. 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.
Waiting times
Below are waiting times for procedures at Bantry General Hospital, as reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
Surgical
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Medical
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Hygiene
Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 82% satisfactory in 2005, rising to 88% in 2006. The hospital had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rate of 0.31 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.