Letterkenny General Hospital,
Letterkenny
Donegal

General Manager - Mr. Sean Murphy - 074 9123501

Director of Nursing - Dr. Anne Flood - 074 9123581

Clinical Director - Dr. Paul O Connor

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Letterkenny General Hospital (LGH) is an acute general and maternity Hospital, which forms an integral part of the Health Service Executive North West Region. The Hospital aims to deliver a patient-centred, quality-driven focused service and provides a wide range of diagnostic and support services. LGH is a teaching hospital with links to the National University of Ireland Galway, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

Letterkenny General Hospital is a 340 bed hospital, and provides a wide range of acute hospital services on an in-patient, day-case and out-patient basis.

The Hospital consists of a one storey building, which was originally built in 1959.  This area includes the Emergency Department, Outpatients Department, Radiology, Pharmacy, Laboratory, 3 Medical Wards, Acute Psychiatric Unit, Cardiac Investigations, Haematology/Oncology Ward and Coronary Care Unit. 

Directly linked by a connecting corridor is a five storey block commissioned in 1981, incorporating Day Services (including Oncology & Endoscopy Unit), Gynaecology, Maternity, Medical Ward, Orthopaedics, Surgical Wards, Theatre, Intensive Care, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and CSSD.  In 2001, a new four storey block was commissioned consisting of the Oncology Unit, Maternity Suite/Theatre and Renal Dialysis Unit.

Recently contract work has started on site at the new Emergency Department and Medical Wards at the Hospital with the project due to be completed in early 2011. The new Emergency Department will incorporate an 11 bedded Medical Assessment Unit and X-Ray room and will have19 treatment spaces The new facility will provide also 3 medical floors which will consist of a total of 72 beds, two thirds of which will be provided in single rooms, which will be state of the art and to the highest infection control standards. It is envisaged that this will greatly improve the facilities and waiting times for our patients. Work has also recently started on construction of a new Acute Mental Health Unit on campus with aprojected finish date of March 2011.

The catchment area incorporates patients residing in the County Donegal north of Laghey/Pettigo with a population of 140,000. The Hospital has a total of 340 in-patient beds and 18 Day Care beds.

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