Portiuncula Hospital
| Portiuncula Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Health Service Executive | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 220 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1943 |
Portiuncula Hospital is a public hospital located in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides in-patient and out-patient orthopaedic services for the population of East Galway, Roscommon, the Midlands and the Mid-West. In 2008, the hospital served 39,462 out-patients, and 11,387 in-patients, with an average stay of 4.4 nights. In 2008, 65.0% of all admissions were via the emergency department. The hospital saw 6,398 day cases and 2,168 live births in the same year.
The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood opened a nursing home at "Mount Pleasant" in 1943, and John Dignan, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clonfert, invited them to found a hospital, which opened on 9 April 1945. The nuns named their hospital after Portiuncula in Italy, the place where Franciscanism began.
The hospital provides 195 in-patient beds and 25 day case beds. In-patient services include general medicine, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, oncology, general surgery, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, and radiology.
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