New Dialysis Therapy Centre opens at Beaumont

MINISTER of State with responsibility for Disability, Finian McGrath, officially opened a new Dialysis Therapy Centre at Beaumont Hospital last week.

The new centre has increased capacity in the outpatient haemodialysis unit from 20 to 34 stations. This has allowed Beaumont to eliminate early morning and late night dialysis sessions, ensuring that patients are now dialysed during more social hours, between 7am to 11pm, improving their own and their family’s quality of life and wellbeing.

Speaking at the opening, Minister McGrath said: “The centre is a welcome expansion of the renal services provided by the Beaumont Hospital Kidney Centre and I am sure it will have a real impact for patients. 

“The new centre, which is part of a programme of expansion which I am progressing at the hospital, was developed with a focus on patient comfort, safety and privacy. The increased capacity in the centre will mean patients will no longer have to travel for dialysis treatment during the night. 

Ian Carter, chief executive of Beaumont Hospital, said: “We have the largest and busiest renal unit of its kind in the Republic of Ireland. The facility provides for maintenance, acute, isolation dialysis treatments, as well home therapy treatments to patients from all over the country.”