{"id":316269,"date":"2026-02-25T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:55:08","slug":"hiqa-inspection-finds-community-hospital-in-waterford-non-compliant-on-fire-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316269\/","title":{"rendered":"HIQA inspection finds community hospital in Waterford non-compliant on fire safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dungarvan Community Hospital. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5561f56f-cc61-44f8-a0b6-2473fce19a08.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dungarvan Community Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An inspection of a community hospital in Waterford has found failings in terms of fire safety, the premises and governance, according to a report issued by the Health and Information Quality Authority (HIQA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The unannounced HIQA inspection was carried out on July 10, 2025, and the report was published on Monday, February 23. HIQA carries out regular visits on all such facilities across the State to ensure compliance with standards of care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dungarvan Community Hospital. An inspection of a community hospital in Waterford has found failings in terms of fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37898,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-316269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}