Euromedic Ireland, Ireland’s leading provider of medical scans, has announced the opening of a new €1.5m medical scanning clinic in Dublin City Centre.
The scanning centre will be located in the new €6m Meath Primary Care clinic on the historic site of the former Meath Hospital in Dublin 8.
Opening in June, Euromedic Ireland’s new centre will ease the burden on surrounding hospitals by offering fast access to MRI and Ultrasound scans. Meath Primary Care will deliver fast access to a range of primary care services to a community of approximately 100,000 residents and workers in Dublin City Centre and throughout the capital.
Located in the new 30,000 square foot primary care centre, the new Euromedic facility will create five new jobs in the administration and clinical areas. Over 100 people will be employed at Meath Primary Care in total when the centre is fully operational in July 2014.
The facility will provide patients with easy and affordable access to MRI and Ultrasound scans on referral from their doctor. Its opening will bring Euromedic’s total number of medical scanning centres in Ireland to seven and represents a further investment of €1.5 million by the Company.
Mr Colm Davitt, CEO, Euromedic Ireland, said; “Since opening our first centre in Ireland in 2007, over one million people have received scans in our centres throughout the country. Our partnership with Meath Primary Care demonstrates our firm commitment to the delivery of accessible primary care diagnostics in the community. The opening will lessen the burden on the local hospitals and assist GPs in delivering an efficient primary care service for the Dublin 8 community and beyond.”
Euromedic Ireland will take over 2,000 square feet on the ground floor of the new primary healthcare centre, where it will offer MRI and Ultrasound scans. Meath Primary Care Centre will also house 10 GPs, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dental clinic, audiology, wound clinic, pharmacy, and an extensive consultant suite which will house orthopaedic and ophthalmology services amongst others.
Euromedic’s new Dublin centre is its third Dublin Centre. Other centres include Euromedic Dundrum in South Dublin, Euromedic Northwood in Santry, Euromedic Cork and Euromedic Kilkenny. It also operates a primary care facility in the Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre in Cork and two hospital based services in Sligo General Hospital and the Ulster Independent Clinic in Belfast.
For more information on Euromedic’s services visit www.euromedic.ie.
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About Euromedic Ireland
Euromedic Ireland, Ireland’s leading diagnostic imaging provider, is now in seven locations in Ireland, including North Dublin, South Dublin, Dublin City Centre, Kilkenny City, Cork City, Mallow and Sligo General Hospital. Euromedic provides medical scans including MRI, Ultrasound, X-ray, CT and DXA. Scans are reported on by RCSI accredited radiologists and results are returned within 48 hours.
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About Meath Primary Care Centre
The Meath Primary Care Centre is a new primary healthcare centre located on the grounds of the old Meath Hospital in Dublin 8. The Meath Hospital was founded in 1753. Situated in the Earl of Meath’s Liberty, the hospital was opened to serve the sick and poor in the crowded area of the Liberties in Dublin.
In the nineteenth century the Meath Hospital achieved worldwide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and ground-breaking research carried out by Robert Graves and William Stokes, physicians of the hospital. One example was when during a typhus epidemic Robert Graves introduced the revolutionary idea of giving food during the illness (“he fed fevers” was what Graves requested be inscribed on his tombstone).
In more recent times the hospital developed specialised services in the fields of urology (led by Professor T J Lane), psychiatry, orthopaedics, haematology, endocrinology and nephrology. The hospital was incorporated in 1998 into Tallaght Hospital and moved to Tallaght, alongside the Adelaide and National Children’s Hospitals.