University Hospital Galway
| University Hospital Galway Ospidéil na hOllscoile Gaillimh |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Newcastle Road, Galway City, Ireland |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | NUI Galway |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 708 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1924 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.saolta.ie |
University Hospital Galway (formerly known as Galway Regional Hospital and then later as University College Hospital Galway) is the main acute hospital in Galway, Ireland.
It is a tertiary referral centre for a range of specialities including Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiology. Together with Merlin Park University Hospital the hospitals comprise the Galway University Hospitals (GUH). These are the main Heath Service (HSE) hospitals in Western Ireland. GUH working with Roscommon hospital was seen as a pilot for the HSE "new hospital model" under Health Minister James Reilly, making it "master of its own destiny" according to then-CEO Bill Maher. That group was expanded so that Galway University Hospitals became part of the West-Northwest hospital group, now called Saolta .
CEO Bill Maher was the subject of an internal audit revealing potential conflict of interest at the time of his appointment leading to the award of contracts without tendering worth approximately €338,000 to Northgate, an organisation Bill Maher held a consulting contract with at the same time . At the time he was also in receipt of top-up payments from St. Vincent's Healthcare Group , and a top-up allowance for working in Galway . He has since left the public health system.
Most acute medical services for the city and region are provided at University Hospital Galway. However other services such as non-acute Rehabilitation, Renal Medicine, Rheumatology and Elective Orthopaedics are provided at the Merlin Park University Hospital site. The Hospital is a designated Cancer Centre under the HSE's cancer control strategy, however certain supraregional services such as Neurosurgery are not available within the GUH group.
UHG lies west of Galway city centre, beside the National University of Ireland, Galway.
It is one of the major academic teaching hospitals in Ireland and is attached to NUI Galway. The Emergency Department at UHG is the regional centre for accident and emergency services in the Health Service Executive West. It treats on average 65,000 patients per annum. In-patient services include internal medicine, general surgery, breast surgery, geriatric assessment, infectious diseases, psychiatry, emergency medicine, intensive-care medicine, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, dermatology, gastroenterology, haematology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, palliative medicine, respiratory medicine, rheumatology, gastrointestinal surgery, colorectal surgery, maxillofacial surgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, vascular surgery, urology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, clinical pharmacology, radiology, and radiotherapy.
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