Hospital type Regional Number of beds 255 | Emergency department Yes Care system Health Service Executive | |
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Location Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland | ||
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South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel (formerly known as Clonmel General Hospital) is a public hospital located in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides acute hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department, for the population of County Tipperary and adjacent areas. In 2008, the hospital served 46,858 out-patients, and 13,208 in-patients, with an average stay of 5.9 nights. The hospital saw 4,499 day cases in the same year. In 2007, 71.7% of admissions (8,370 patients) were made via the accident and emergency department. The hospital saw 1,178 live births in 2008.
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Services
The hospital provides 318 beds, of which 217 are in-patient beds, 25 are designated for day cases, 25 for emergency department patienst, and 2 for labour ward admissions, while a further 49 are reserved for psychiatric patients. Specialty services include general medicine, general surgery, dermatology, accident and emergency, oncology, palliative care, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry.<
Waiting times
The national median waiting time for surgery in November 2009 stood at 1.1 months; at South Tipperary General Hospital this figure was 0.7 months. Overall waiting time was 0.7 months, above the national median of 2.4 months. As of November 2009, the National Treatment Purchase Fund listed the following waiting times for procedures:
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Hygiene
Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 80% satisfactory in 2005, rising to 92% in 2006. The hospital had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rate of 0.01 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.