{"id":338748,"date":"2026-03-10T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:30:07","slug":"hse-acquires-limerick-site-for-new-hospital-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338748\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE acquires Limerick site for new hospital facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

A site for a new hospital facility in Limerick has been acquired by the HSE for \u20ac14 million, in close proximity to University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has confirmed the acquisition of the 44-acre site in Raheen, which is 2km from UHL.<\/p>\n

A new hospital campus will be built on the site, as per one of the recommendations of the HIQA report to relieve pressure on UHL in Dooradoyle.<\/p>\n

The minister said the strategic site is a 28 minute drive from Ennis, Co Clare and a 28 minute drive from Nenagh, Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n

Sandra Broderick, Regional Executive Officer, HSE Mid West said that today is an important day for the 10,000 people who work in healthcare in the region.<\/p>\n

“Let us not forget that there are people experiencing care on a trolley and today is about making sure that people in the future do not experience care on a trolley,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer<\/p>\n

UHL provides the only 24-hour emergency department in the region, including Limerick, Clare and north Tipperary. It also receives patients from parts of north Cork and north Kerry.<\/p>\n

It consistently has the highest number of patients being treated on hospital trolleys in the country.<\/p>\n

A report by HIQA last year stated: “The core issue is that there are not enough inpatient beds in HSE Mid-West which are capable of treating the sickest patients who present for urgent or emergency care”.<\/p>\n

It recommended immediate action and investment to address current risks to patient safety in the shortest timeframe and safest way possible.<\/p>\n

It made three recommendations: Expand capacity at UHL; add a second site nearby; build a completely new hospital in the midwest with a second emergency department.<\/p>\n

The Government pledged to implement a blend of all three options in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A site for a new hospital facility in Limerick has been acquired by the HSE for \u20ac14 million,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-338748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338748","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=338748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}