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University Hospital Limerick

Being taken to hospital is not an experience
many of us wish to encounter too often in our
lives. But in Limerick, Sisk are working on a
¤22m project that will dramatically improve
the experience patients receive if that time
should come. We are delivering Ireland’s
largest Accident & Emergency unit, together with a 24-bed dialysis facility at Limerick Hospital.
It will combine the best medical technology in Europe with improved dignity and privacy for
those undergoing care.

The Emergency Department, Renal Department has just been permanent diversion of live
which is due for completion delivered. It will provide full in and services, and modifications to the
in March 2017 (how it will out-patient facilities including existing hospital lifts.
look pictured above), will be isolation areas to compliment the
located on the ground floor, part Department of Nephrology. As a busy hospital, the key to
of which is directly underneath this project’s success is the close
the hospital’s current live Intensive As this is a complex hospital daily co-ordination meetings with
Care Unit. It will be three times project it includes a number of the hospital team, including risk
the size of the existing space construction phases and a series of assessments to monitor aspects
and include CAT scan, X-Ray and work elements additional to the fit such as access arrangements. It’s
Paediatrics. The bereavement suite out of the new shell space. vital that access routes for the
will be delivered in May 2017. The public, ambulance services and
works include a new plant room, For example, there is the staff are not disrupted whilst work
modifications to the Critical Care demolition and reconfiguration is ongoing. But when completed,
Unit and its environs, and a public of some existing accommodation Limerick Hospital patients will be
car park. With a growing demand occupied by the dialysis receiving the best care in within
for dialysis, a new state of the art department, demolition of an first class facilities.
existing electrical plant room,
extensive temporary and

The Renal Dialysis Ward

Pictured inside the shell of the new emergency department: Seamus Kiniry, Sisk;
Caitriona Mullarkey, Consultant in emergency medicine, UL Hospitals Group; Colette
Cowan, CEO, UL Hospitals Group and Joe Hoare, Estates Manager, HSE Estates

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