Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (Drogheda)

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Health Service Executive
Geography
Location	Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Organisation
Care system	Louth Meath Hospital Group
Hospital type	Regional
Affiliated university	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	340

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (OLLH or OLOL) is a public hospital located in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, part of the Louth Meath Hospital Group. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive (HSE) and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department, for the populations of County Louth, County Meath and the entire North East of Ireland. In 2008, the hospital served 110,844 out-patients, and 21,446 in-patients, with an average stay of 4.5 nights. In 2007, 42,566 patients presented to the emergency department, of which 17,831 were admitted. 80.8% of all admissions were made via the accident and emergency department in 2008. The hospital saw 8,108 day cases in the same year. In 2008, there were 4,301 live births. It is affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

The hospital was opened by the Medical Missionaries of Mary as the International Missionary Training Hospital (IMTH) in 1957, and was transferred to then North Eastern Health Board (now the HSE) in 1997.

The hospital provides 340 beds, of which 30 are reserved for acute day cases. In-patient services include general medicine, general surgery, accident and emergency, dermatology, oncology, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology, paediatrics, endocrinology, geriatrics, infectious disease, tropical medicine, otorhinolaryngology, palliative medicine, orthopaedics, urology, dental surgery, anaesthesia, intensive care, pathology, and radiology.

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