New €5.5m outpatients unit opens at Temple Street Children’s Hospital
A new outpatients unit at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin has been opened this morning.
The new Neurology and Renal facility cost €5.5m to build and was funded entirely through donations.
The two-floor unit will cater to over 6,500 patients who attend the hospital for treatment each year.
Brian O’Driscoll, Temple Street Ambassador, opened the new unit this afternoon.
- 400 square metre footprint
- A larger waiting room with play area
- Dedicated treatment rooms
- A parents’ room
- Three new Neurophysiological Sleep Testing Rooms with adjoining monitoring. (Located away from the main patient waiting/treatment areas and with better acoustics, these will enable more efficient tests to be conducted)
- Two wheelchair accessible toilets
- Four consultants’ rooms
- A nurses’ room
- A technician’s office
- EEG rooms
- 400 square metre footprint
- A new larger waiting room with play area
- A state of the art treatment room for transplant patients
- Five Hemodialysis stations
- A specialised Urodynamics facility
- Provision for psychologists and dieticians to be housed on this single floor, providing a completely holistic treatment for patients
