Merlin Pk Hospital

sgthighway

Anybody hear any big news on Merlin Pk Hospital this morning?

Care to elaborate?

mikom

Heard the old folks are getting mashed parsnips instead of mashed carrots for dinner today.

mikom

mikom wrote: »

Heard the old folks are getting mashed parsnips instead of mashed carrots for dinner today.

So jealous

gaeilgegrinds1

Indeed. I'd say it'll be on the news tonight. Hardly surprising.

PopeBuckfastXVI

Share the news, share the source, plz!

LadyMayBelle

Anyone care to share??

Seemingly they renamed the Merlin Park Hospital to the Merlin Pk Hospital.

dessierb

yea its going to be closed...... Transfer of all services to UCHG.. More CUTS.........................What next

amiable

mikom wrote: »

Heard the old folks are getting mashed parsnips instead of mashed carrots for dinner today.

that's only a wild rumour and i'll ask you to retract it

biko

I heard the new nurses are going to run naked through ward C later today, only a rumour though.
Did anyone hear anything atall atall?

*Pulls up chair and puts kettle on*

dessierb

amiable wrote: »

that's only a wild rumour and i'll ask you to retract it

And your sources are?? to make that statement. I only post facts.

biko

biko wrote: »

I heard the new nurses are going to run naked through ward C later today, only a rumour though.
Did anyone hear anything atall atall?

*Pulls up chair and puts kettle on*

Hope to christ that's not the cardiac ward. That'd cause some awful troubles!

NuMarvel

brokenlaptop wrote: »

Seemingly they renamed the Merlin Park Hospital to the Merlin Pk Hospital.

Merlin Pk University Hospital, thank you very much.

the keen edge

brokenlaptop wrote: »

Hope to christ that's not the cardiac ward. That'd cause some awful troubles!

Really?

I heard it was planned to go through the erectile dysfunction ward.

the keen edge

amiable wrote: »

that's only a wild rumour and i'll ask you to retract it

No its true I'am afraid.
They'll complain at first and then eat it.

What I'd like to know is who told them about the change?. If we told them it was carrot and not parsnip then there'd be no hassle, old people will believe what we tell them to believe, after first complaining about it.

skelliser

They couldnt be thinking of closing it! Shocking if they did, if anything merlin park helps releive some of the backlog UCHG is under.

mikom

feelingstressed wrote: »

I used to go jogging around the grounds.

It's so depressing, the place is like Chernobyl

Should have kept it up................. you'd have three legs by now.

ronnie3585

I heard it Merlin Parked everything

the keen edge

mikom wrote: »

Should have kept it up................. you'd have three legs by now.

By three legs you mean bigger penis, right?

--<<Puts pair Nike air's in gear bag and heads towards the eastside>--

sgthighway

Staff were told this morning that some units are closing down. Its not looking good for any temporary staff up there. I am suprised it was not on the 1 o'clock news.

mikom

sgthighway wrote: »

I am suprised it was not on the 1 o'clock news.

Saving room in the bulletin for news about 5 call centre jobs proposed for Mohill.

Maja

feelingstressed wrote: »

I used to go jogging around the grounds.

It's so depressing, the place is like Chernobyl

-agree :rolleyes:

HardyEustace

Maja wrote: »

-agree :rolleyes:

The grounds are lovely though.

Asmodean

Agree that the grounds are really nice. Used to live in Doughiska and I'd take a shortcut off the Hospital avenue and cut through Merlin woods.
I broke my leg about 3 years ago back home in Waterford but I had to get all the aftercare out in Merlin Park. I'll admit I was very sceptical of the place when I first went in there but in my honest opinion the service I received far outweighed the physical look of the place. I found the staff there nothing but competent. Could do with more than a lick of paint though I'll admit!

_Whimsical_

HardyEustace wrote: »

The grounds are lovely though.

Yeah it is beautiful really. I wonder what they'd plan to do with the campus up there if they did close the hospital. A few years ago they'd probably have made a fortune selling it for housing estate land or grounds for a hotel. It really isn't a time to sell some place like it now though I'd have thought.

Pity they let the inside of it go down the tubes. Stepping through the front door is like entering a portal to the bleakest times of the 1950s.

gerkeo

Am i correct in saying the HSE / Western Health Board were donated the grounds on the condition that it is only to be used as a place of healing?

This would rule out them selling the land for development.

skelliser

Dunno about that. Merlin park was originally built as an isolation hospital to house people suffering from tb. Hence why all the units are spaced out, it has/had its own power station and the size of the grounds.

Maja

HardyEustace wrote: »

The grounds are lovely though.

agree :rolleyes: (but buildings are not )

Storm 10

Just heard Padraig Connelly on Galway Bay News saying that it is true that Merlin Park Hospital will close .

Jez as if things are not bad enough in the health service.

?Cee?view

gerkeo wrote: »

Am i correct in saying the HSE / Western Health Board were donated the grounds on the condition that it is only to be used as a place of healing?

This would rule out them selling the land for development.

Yep, that's apparently true. It was donated by the widow (I think) of Captain Waithman whose family also owned Declan Ganley's house at one stage. I think there's a condition in the bequest that the land was to be used as you describe. There was a proposal a few years ago to develop part of the land when the whole issue was raised.