Southern Health Board services

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Authors Southern Health Board (SHB)

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Find this and similar works at - http://www.lenus.ie/hse St. Vincent’s Centre, St. Mary’s Road, (see inside page of pack). Contact . Tel: 021 4391333 numbers are also available in the telephone book under the Southern Services for adults with an intellectual Health Board’s listing. Southern Health Board disability are provided by the SHB at Southern Health Board three centres: St. Raphael’s Centre, Youghal, Co. Health Promotion services Cork, Tel: 024 92422 Department services Grove House, , Cork, The Health Promotion department Tel: 021 4303264 provides comprehensive information, St. Finan’s Hospital, Ballydribben, education, training, advocacy and Killarney, Co. Kerry,Tel: 064 31022. support services in the promotion of health. Further information on services is A wide range of information leaflets available from Disability Services, and other literature of interest to Southern Health Board, adj. to Carers is available from the Health Shopping Centre, Blackpool, Cork. Promotion department. Tel: 021 4927114. Please contact [email protected] or Tel: 021 492 1641 for a complete list. PHYSICAL AND SENSORY DISABILITY The Health Promotion department Services for people with physical or also offers individually tailored sup- sensory disability are provided by the port and help to those wishing to stop Southern Health Board or voluntary smoking. This service is available free agencies. of charge. Please contact your local The services aim to enhance the smoking resource officer to get fur- health and quality of life of people ther information at the following tele- availing of them. phone numbers: Cork City: 021 4921641 Further information can be obtained North Cork: 022 44910 from your local Community Services West Cork: 028 40418 office or Care Group Co-ordinator Kerry: 066 7184834

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© SOUTHERN HEALTH BOARD CARERS’ DEVELOPMENT UNIT, CO F F A House, 21 Church Street, Shandon, Cork. Tel: 021 4212019. Fax: 021 4212013. E-mail: [email protected] www.shb.ie Customer Information Lo call: 1850 742 000 The following is an overview of the Two voluntary hospitals, Mercy AURAL SERVICE (HEARING) payments. The community welfare broad range of services provided University Hospital, Eligible adults with hearing defects service also administers the Medical by the Southern Health Board Tel: 021 4271971 and South are referred by their GP to an Ear, Card Scheme. (SHB). Please contact the individ- Infirmary/ Victoria Hospital, Nose and Throat Clinic. They are then ual service, location or the Tel: 021 4926100 also provide acute referred to a Hearing Aid Clinic, if COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES Customer Information Line lo-call hospital services in Cork city. hearing aids are required. Community workers provide an advice 1850 742 000 for further details. and support service to groups and Individuals can access acute hospital CHIROPODY/PODIATRY SERVICE organisations in the voluntary sector Hospital Care services as follows: This service provides for foot health that are interested in developing serv- The Southern Health Board provides Referral by general practitioner and awareness of foot problems. It is ices which are similar or complemen- acute hospital services on an in- (GP) to, for example, Out-Patients available to older people, people with tary to health services. They provide patient, outpatient, 5-day and day Department and Accident & disabilities and those who suffer from information on grant aid available care basis, as appropriate, in the Emergency Department for conditions such as diabetes and from the Southern Health Board as following locations: emergency admission rheumatoid arthritis and those who well as information on National , Wilton, Self-referral to Accident and have poor circulation. Lottery funding that is administered Cork. Tel: 021 4546400 Emergency service only by the Southern Health Board. St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Douglas Rd, Referral from other hospitals COMMUNITY PHYSIOTHERAPY Community workers can provide very Cork. Tel: 021 4966555 Referral from consultants’ private SERVICE practical support to Carers to come Erinville Hospital, Western Rd, rooms. This service provides physiotherapy together as a group. Cork. Tel: 021 4275211 assessment, advice and/or treatment, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, There are also 19 community hospi- outside of acute hospital or specialist OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICE Gurranabraher, Cork. tals and 2 welfare homes in the clinic setting. Access to the service is Occupational therapists provide servic- Tel: 021 4303264 Southern Health Board’s region primarily for medical card/long term es, within health care, rehabilitation , Mallow, providing a wide range of services, illness cardholders or terminally ill and preventative programmes to peo- Co. Cork. Tel: 022 21251 primarily focusing on the needs of the clients. However exceptions are dealt ple whose ability to cope with everyday , Bantry. older person. with on an individual basis. activities is threatened or impaired by Tel: 027 50133 physical, psychological or developmen- Tralee General Hospital, Tralee. Community Services COMMUNITY WELFARE SERVICES tal problems. The service is designed to Tel: 066 7184000 Community services aims to enable The community welfare service is help people achieve maximum inde- people in the community to live with designed to help relieve social distress pendence in their daily activities of self- dignity and independence in their and to prevent its recurrence by care, work leisure and play. The service own homes for as long as possible, providing support and information in is available to people with medical with support services provided by the relation to personal social services. A cards and long-term illness cards. Southern Health Board. A wide range range of means-tested allowances/ of services are delivered from five schemes are available including basic PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE SERVICES community services areas in the supplementary welfare, rent, Public health nurses provide assess- region. Many of these services may mortgage, diet, travel, heat supple- ment to all those who may require be useful to Carers including: ments and exceptional needs nursing care because of age or the

2 3 nature of their illness. The public Community services are provided SHB Health & Wel fa r e ment of that illness. health nurse supports Carers in their through five Community Services caring role. The public health nurse areas throughout Cork and Kerry as Se r v i c es Allowan ce s / MEDICAL CARD (GENERAL MEDICAL will carry out an assessment and will follows: Sc h e m e s : SERVICE SCHEME) draw up a care plan in partnership North Lee Community Services, The purpose of this scheme is to BLIND WELFARE ALLOWANCE with the client, Carer or family. Abbey Court House, Tel: 021 4965511 provide eligible persons who are This allowance is subject to a means Support of a registered general nurse, South Lee Community Services, unable, without undue hardship, to test and is payable monthly to a home help or aids and appliances Abbey Court House, Tel: 021 4965511 arrange GP medical and surgical persons who are certified and regis- may be provided following assess- North Cork Community Services, services for themselves and their tered as blind. ment. Referrals may also be made for Gouldshill House, Mallow, dependants. Persons ordinarily resi- respite care, day care, meals on Tel: 022 30200 DOMICILIARY CARE ALLOWANCE dent in the State aged 70 years and wheels and other local services. West Cork Community Services, This is a monthly allowance paid to over are automatically entitled to a Coolnagarrane, Skibbereen, parents/guardians of children medical card irrespective of means. SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY Tel: 028 40400 between 0-16 who have a physical or SERVICE Kerry Community Services, mental disability so severe that they MOBILITY ALLOWANCE The speech and language therapist 18-20 Denny St., Tralee, require care or supervision. This allowance is payable to certain assesses, diagnoses and manages Tel: 066 7121566 people with severe disabilities. clients who present with communica- DRUGS PAYMENT SCHEME tion difficulties. Alternatively, this information can be Under the Drug Payment Scheme an MOTORISED TRANSPORT GRANT provided through the Board’s individual or family pays only the first This grant is payable to people with Û Your local community welfare officer Customer Information Line: 78* per month of the cost of pre- severe disabilities to assist them or public health nurse will be able to Lo-call: 1850 742 000. scribed medicines approved for this with the cost of the purchase or assist you in relation to many of purpose. (*Figure correct at time of publication) . adaptation of a car. these services. They can be contacted Carers’ Development at the local health centre, details of HOUSING AID FOR THE ELDERLY NURSING HOME SUBVENTION which are available in the telephone Unit SCHEME This is a payment made in certain cir- Carers Development Unit offers book under Health Board Services, This is a means tested scheme which cumstances towards the cost of pri- support to family Carers in the Southern Health Board Community aims to carry out minor works which vate nursing home care for dependant Southern Health Board region in the Services. are considered to be urgently neces- persons. The actual rate of subvention form of information, knowledge, prac- sary to improve the living conditions paid will depend on the degree of tical skills, personal development and of elderly people living alone in unfit nursing care required and the means group work. A range of supports are or unsanitary conditions. of the individual. Assessment is made provided including, The Carer's Voice on an individual basis. newsletter, Carers Breaks, training LONG-TERM ILLNESS SCHEME courses and workshops, links to vol- Individuals suffering from certain SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE untary and statutory supports, fund- long-term illnesses will be provided ALLOWANCE SCHEME: ing for voluntary groups and links to free of charge with drugs/medicines Eligible persons may be entitled to support groups. Tel: 021 4212019 and surgical appliances that are assistance under the Supplementary E-mail: [email protected] prescribed specifically for the treat- Welfare Allowance Scheme. Basic

4 5 payments are paid to persons with Mental Health Services are provided through Services provided include day care, reduced or nil income pending award five catchment areas, as follows: residential care, respite, home sup- The aim of the Southern Health of a primary payment or to those North Lee: St. Michael’s Unit, Mercy port and specialist support services B o a r d ’s Mental Health Service is to ineligible for any other payment. Hospital, Cork. Tel: 021 4271971 including training, activation and meet the specific needs of persons Supplements are available as follows: South Lee: G.F. Unit, Cork University social skills programmes. suffering from a mental illness in an Rent/Mortgage Supplements: Eligible Hospital, Wilton, Cork. appropriate and high-quality care persons may be entitled to assistance Tel: 021 4546400 setting, and to provide them with The Southern Health Board works towards the cost of rent/mortage North Cork: St. Stephen’s Hospital, the opportunity to maximise their closely with voluntary agencies who Travel Supplements: Assistance may Glanmire, Cork. Tel: 021 4821411 potential in personal, social and provide services to people with an be given towards essential costs e.g. West Cork: Psychiatric Unit, Bantry economic terms. intellectual disability in the region. hospital visits that cannot be met out General Hospital. Tel: 027 52970 These agencies are: of weekly income Kerry: Acute Unit, Tralee General Brothers of Charity Services, A comprehensive service is provided Diet Supplements: Assistance may be Hospital, Tralee, Co. Kerry. Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork within the Mental Health Services provided towards the cost of a diet Tel: 066 7184802. Tel: 021 4821012 i n c l u d i n g : prescribed for medical reasons to a COPE Foundation, Bonnington, Acute psychiatric care person or his/her adult or child For further information see SHB Montenotte, Cork. Tel: 021 4507131 Community based residences (hos- dependants provided he/she satisfies Information Guide to Adult Mental Kerry Parents & Friends Association, tels and houses) with high, medium certain conditions Health Services in Cork/Kerry. The Old Monastery, Port Road, and low support Other Supplements: Assistance may Copies are available through your Killarney, Co. Kerry. Tel: 064 32742 Long stay residential care/ continu- be provided towards other ongoing local Mental Health Services St. Patrick’s Centre, Upton, Co. Cork. ing care essential needs causing undue office and under the Health Board’s Tel: 021 4775202 Out-patient clinics, medical, hardship e.g. heat etc. website under publications section on St. Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, nursing, psychological, social work Exceptional Needs Payment: www.shb.ie Killarney, Co. Kerry. Tel: 064 44133 s e r v i c e s Assistance may be provided towards Charleville & District Association for Community services, day care cen- essential once off payments e.g. the Handicapped, Bakers Road, tres/mental health centres, day Disability Services essential furniture, household appli- Charleville, Co. Cork. h o s p i t a l s Disability Services are divided ances or rental deposits. Tel: 063 89252 Services for the mentally infirm, into two elements: intellectual Co-Action West Cork, Slip, Bantry, dementia services and alzheimer’s and physical/sensory disabilities. Co. Cork. Tel: 027 50114 s u f f e r e r s L’Arche Community, Le Cheile, Training Centres providing training INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Togher, Cork. Tel: 021 4318880 in catering, carpentry, woodwork, Intellectual disability services aim to St. John of God Services, Brennan horticulture, literacy/numeracy, provide health and personal social Enterprises, Monavalley, Tralee, computer skills and sheltered work- services for people with an intellectu- Co. Kerry. Tel: 066 7124856 s h o p s al disability to enhance their health Cork Association for Autism, Occupational therapy. and quality of life and to develop the person with an intellectual disability 61 , Cork. to the maximum of his/her potential. Tel: 021 4271808

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