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Empty beds at St Francis Community Nursing Home in Newcastle could be used as a step-down facility to relieve the pressure on University Hospital Galway if a proposal being put forward by an HSE manager gets the go-ahead.

The owner of Kilkenny’s former Avondale Nursing Home, who left the country and moved to Australia last summer, has said she will return home to co-operate with a Garda investigation if necessary.

The former owner of Kilkenny’s Avondale nursing home, which was closed down following serious concerns over the safety and health of residents, has been managing a nursing home in Melbourne, Australia.

A city councillor has warned that if St Francis’ public nursing home in the city is closed she fears for the future of other public facilities, such as St Anne’s Community Nursing Home in Clifden, Aras Mhuire in Tuam, Aras Ronan on the Aran Islands and Units 5 and 6 in Merlin Park Hospital as well as Clifden District Hospital.

Transition year students from Calasanctius College in Oranmore, and residents from the Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell, are currently participating in a five week intergenerational project designed to bring young and old together for the purpose of learning from each other.

Community nursing homes in the county could face closure if the warnings given by the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly come to fruition. Dr Reilly remarked earlier this week at a Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary party that cuts in the forthcoming budget could results in the closure of 40 nursing homes, the closing of 1,000 hospital beds, and the hotly debated issue of a €50 medical card charge.

The Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell was last week announced as a finalist for the second annual NHI Care Awards.

There has been increased pressure placed on the Health Services Executive this week to fully explain the reasoning behind its decision to close a city nursing home, a decision which has attracted wide-spread criticism and prompted objectors to launch a campaign which has so far received more than 10,000 signatures.

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