Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, annual report, 2003.

Abstract

The year 2003 saw the Midland Health Boord continue to provide services of the highest quality and standard to the people of Laois, Longford, Offaly ond Westmeath. The Board continued to benefit from the Notional Development Plan by: the completion of the Paediatric Unit, and Acute In·Patient Psychiatric Unit at the Midland Regional Hospital at Portlaoise; The tremendous progress in the building of the new Midland Regional Hospital of Tullamore, which is due for completion in 2005, and t the completion of the Development Control Plan Phase 2B for the Midland Regional Hospital at Mullingar, which proposes a €57 million capital development, and will see the bed complement at the hospital increase from 203 to 311. Twenty-four nurses from the Midland Regional School of Nursing were conferred with their diplomas at a graduation ceremony held in Tullamore on Thursday 13 February. This is the second group to graduate from the Midland Regional School of Nursing since it wos established in 1998. Nurse training, which is now a Degree programme, is conducted as a partnership between the Midland Health Board and the Institute of Technology, Athlone.