{"id":629172,"date":"2026-09-19T03:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T03:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:14:15","slug":"hiqa-praises-care-at-cahersiveen-community-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629172\/","title":{"rendered":"HIQA praises care at Cahersiveen Community Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIQA has found residents at Cahersiveen Community Hospital enjoy a good standard of care and quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The unannounced inspection of the HSE-run South Kerry facility took place in May.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the centre was compliant with thirteen regulations and substantially compliant with two.<\/p>\n<p>Nine residents spoke to the inspector, and all gave positive feedback about their care and the kindness of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors also said they were satisfied with the care their family members received.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiqa.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIQA<\/a> found residents were well cared for, with staff described as respectful, empathetic and familiar with their needs and preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Residents had good access to healthcare, including GPs, physiotherapists, dieticians and speech and language therapists.<\/p>\n<p>Two regulations were rated substantially compliant.<\/p>\n<p>HIQA found the external laundry was in a poor state of repair, with damaged flooring and equipment increasing the risk of cross-contamination.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE said new flooring and wall covering, along with the removal of obsolete equipment, would be completed by the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>Governance was also rated substantially compliant.<\/p>\n<p>HIQA said required information, relating to a person participating in management, had not been submitted.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE said that this documentation had now been sent to HIQA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIQA has found residents at Cahersiveen Community Hospital enjoy a good standard of care and quality of life.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[246878,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-629172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cahersiveen","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629172","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=629172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}