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Naas General Hospital serves the
catchment area of Kildare and west Wicklow, an area with rapidly
growing population. It is located within walking distance of the
centre of Naas Town. The hospital currently has 240 patient beds
which include 13 day service beds.
An important aspect of the hospital’s role is
the provision of a 24-hour, 7 days a week Accident and Emergency
Service.
At present a major multi-million Euro development of the hospital is
underway.
The new facility will increase the bed capacity of the hospital to
279 beds. In addition to its A&E Department, the services provided
by the Hospital are General Medical, General Surgical, Acute
Psychiatry, Care of the Elderly including Day Hospital, Day
Procedures, Outpatients Department, Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy,
Speech & Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy,
Nutrition & Dietetic Services, Cardiology, Social Work Department,
Department
of Nursing which provides specialist-nursing services in the areas
of Diabetes, Respiratory, Oncology, Pallative Care, Cardiac
Rehabilitation and Tissue Viability.
Naas General
Hospital
Acute Hospital
Naas
Co. Kildare.
Tel: 045 897 221
Fax: 045 874 492
Number of Beds:
In Patient: 193
Day: 6
Total: 199
The Main Services provided by Naas General Hospital include:
General Medicine
Surgical Medicine
Acute Psychiatry
24 Hour Accident and Emergency
The hospital also has a day hospital for older persons and provides
day procedures in addition to a range of
Radiology
Pathology
Physical medicine
Pharmacy services
The following sub-specialities are provided:
Department of General Medicine
Respiratory Medicine
Gastroenterology
Geriatric Medicine
Cardiology
Department of Surgery
Colorectal Surgery
Breast / Endocrine Surgery
Vascular Surgery (day service)
Other Services
Emergency Medicine
Anaesthetics
Orthopaedics (out-patients)
Radiology
Pathology
Psychiatry
In addition to general nursing services, the Department of Nursing
provides specialist nursing services in the following areas:
Diabetes
Asthma
Oncology
Cardiac rehabilitation
General Manager:
Mr. Michael Knowles
Director of Nursing:
Ms. Barbara Fitzgerald
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