A Cavan/Monaghan project which created an "integrated approach" to providing care services for older people has been nominated for a prestigious health services award.
The HSE Cavan/Monaghan project "Service Without Walls" is nominated for the Health Services Excellence Awards in the "Improving Patient Experience" category.
Nursing and Allied Health professionals from the region came together to create a new referral and discharge communication process, which linked acute and primary/community nursing teams.
It resulted in more short-term care beds being made available in older person's services in the Lisdarn unit, adjacent to Cavan General Hospital, to allow patients to recuperate in a non-acute hospital environment.
This resulted in more options for patients and reduced the bed stay from 26 days to 17 days since the extra short-term beds opened in Lisdarn Centre.
Service Manager Rose Mooney says the project was not a once-off, but a change of mindset developed and managed by the integrated multi-disciplinary team.
