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A NEW 352-BED Model Four Hospital with an Emergency Department (ED) on a green field site in Ennis is necessary to deal with the county’s long-term growing health care needs. That is one of the key recommendations of a new independent study of acute hospital services, which has been completed by Ennis, University of Limerick Phd student, Sinéad Madden, and is one the first of its kind analysing acute care in the region. Constructing a 352-bed Model 4 hospital with ED in Ennis would address the county’s long-term needs, according to the report. This is comparable to UHL’s capacity in 2014, which operated as a Model 4. Considering the ageing population, this new facility could operate as a centre of excellence and a teaching facility for social and geriatric care considering the ageing population in Clare. It noted cancer care and complex acute emergency cases could still be treated at UHL. Clare needs an extra 302 unplanned acute beds in addition …
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