Letterkenny General Hospital

Letterkenny University Hospital
Health Service Executive
Geography
Location	Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
Organisation
Care system	HSE
Hospital type	University
Services
Emergency department	Reopened
History
Founded	1960

Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) (Irish: Ospidéal na hOllscoile Leitir Ceanainn) is an acute university and maternity hospital serving 147,000 inhabitants of County Donegal in Ireland.

One of Ireland's busiest, the campus is divided by a main road heading on towards the North/West of Donegal on the N56 road (Ireland) . A teaching hospital, it maintains links with NUI Galway, LYIT and the Royal College of Surgeons. The General Manager is Sean Murphy, the Director of Nursing is Dr. Anne Flood and the Clinical Director is Dr. Paul O'Connor.

LUH has been affected by the problems faced by Ireland's crumbling Health Service, extending back to the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrat governments of Bertie Ahern and Mary Harney to the present Fine Gael–Labour coalition. A common feature is the treatment of patients on trolleys due to chronic bed shortages. The hospital was closed for nine months when it was destroyed by flooding in July 2013 which caused €40 million worth of damage. The hospital was closed once again due to flooding following heavy rainfall a year later, in August 2014.

Donegal was first served by the County Hospital which opened in 1832 and closed on 31 August 1960. The General Hospital replaced it. Nowadays the hospital consists of a single storey building that dates from the 1960s, and a multi-storey extension built above this and opened in 1981. Most of the facilities are housed in this building but some, such as the dental, ophthalmic and some mental health facilities, are housed across the road in St. Conal's Psychiatric Hospital.

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