“This Women’s Health Hub is an outstanding addition to healthcare services for the people of Kerry,” according to Julie O’Neill, HSE Integrated Healthcare Area Manager Kerry, outlining the positive impact that the new facility, at Joe Sheehy Road in Tralee, is already having locally.
Run by a multi-disciplinary team, the contemporary hub brings together consultants, specialist nurses and midwives, physiotherapists, infant feeding experts, social work, perinatal mental health and bereavement support professionals under one roof.
Women can now access midwifery-led support care, obstetric/midwifery assisted care pathway clinics, ante-natal education, birth choice clinics, infant feeding clinics, a post-natal hub, bereavement supports and women’s health physiotherapy in a unit that extends to almost 10,000 square feet.
Further services coming onstream in the coming weeks include colposcopy (CervicalCheck), hysteroscopy, ambulatory gynaecology and nurse-led urogynaecology.
Congratulating all involved, Mary Fitzgerald, General Manager, University Hospital Kerry, noted that “this type of project requires collaborative working which has been evident throughout. We are very proud of this facility, which will provide exceptional care in an environment that is calm, comfortable, and reassuring.”
The Women’s Health Hub is now accepting referrals from GPs and other medical professionals only.
In conclusion, Julie noted how the hub will provide “co-ordinated services for women across their life course, in the right place and at the right time, as per the broader vision of Sláintecare.”