Former Cork hurling All-Star Kevin Hennessey has said he already feels at home in the recently opened community nursing unit at the Midleton Community Hospital.<\/p>\n
The 50-bed facility was officially opened last Friday by Minister of State for Older People and Housing Kieran O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n
Delivered through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), it replaces older buildings on the site, providing both short and long-stay accommodation and represents a significant investment in healthcare infrastructure for the Midleton area and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n
The new facility is made up of two 25-bed \u2018households\u2019 with a mix of single and twin en-suite bedrooms, alongside day rooms, dining areas, activity spaces, landscaped outdoor areas and specialist therapy facilities.<\/p>\n
It also incorporated dedicated physiotherapy and occupational therapy rooms, clinical treatment rooms, a family overnight stay room, and a hairdressing salon.<\/p>\n
The new unit welcomed its first residents in July, and supported residents of Marymount older person\u2019s service with temporary accommodation during capital works underway at the Curraheen facility<\/p>\n
Mr Hennessy is settling in well and already feels at home in his new surroundings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very excited to move into this incredible new building. Everything is bright, welcoming and designed with residents in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cI even made sure the nurses brought the Cork flag along too, as a little piece of home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe communal day rooms are wonderful spaces where we can come together, have a chat, relax and watch a match or two,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe staff have been very supportive throughout the move, and everyone has made us feel very welcome. It already feels like home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grace Tabuno, the facility\u2019s director of nursing, said: \u201cThe residents of Midleton Community Nursing Unit are at the centre of everything we do every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to be providing excellent care in this fantastic new setting, and the feedback from residents and their families so far has been very positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new building supports our hardworking team to provide high-quality, person-centred care in a warm, comfortable and supportive environment,\u201d said Ms Tabuno<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to ensure every resident feels respected, valued and at home while continuing to enjoy the routines, relationships and activities that matter most to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Donnell said the new unit will: \u201cProvide residents with access to high-quality care that supports dignity, independence and wellbeing in a place they can call home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cork hurling All-Star Kevin Hennessey has said he already feels at home in the recently opened community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[79,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-661292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cork-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661292","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=661292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}