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Yvonne Moloney, a registered advanced midwife practitioner at the University Maternity Hospital, Limerick where visiting restrictions will be eased next Monday.
Visiting Slots For Partners Resume In Maternity Hospital
May 7, 2021
Nominated partners will be given 45-minute visiting slots in University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) next Monday, as Covid-19 restrictions ease.
Partners will be able to visit in postnatal wards, M1 and M2, between the hours of 6pm and 8pm daily.
This follows the recent reintroduction of the option to have nominated partners present for anomaly scans, and visiting for fathers/parents of babies in the neonatal unit at the hospital.
Partners allowed 45-minute visit to postnatal wards of University Maternity Hospital Limerick from Monday
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PARTNERS are to be allowed 45-minute visits to postnatal wards of University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) from next Monday.
UL Hospitals Group said the move is the next step in its gradual relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions on access to University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL), as local transmission of Covid-19 decreases and the Mid-West vaccination programme continues. From next Monday, May 10, nominated partners will be given 45-minute visiting slots on the hospital’s postnatal wards, M1 and M2, between the hours of 6pm and 8pm daily, said a hospital spokesperson.
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Search By Live95 News Team via Google Maps UL Hospitals Group has announced the next step in its gradual relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions at University Maternity Hospital Limerick.
Starting next Monday, nomimnated partners will be given 45 minute visiting slots on University Maternity Hospital Limerick s postnatal wards between the hours of 6pm and 8pm daily.
This follows the recent reintroduction of partners present for anomaly scans, and visiting for fathers or parents of babies in the neonatal unit at the hospital.
Meanwhile, visiting on compassionate grounds will continue to be facilitated, as it has been throughout the pandemic.
All nominated partners must adhere to the wearing of face masks, observe hand hygiene and social distancing.
International Day of the Midwife celebrated at University Maternity Hospital Limerick
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Joanne Ahern and her infant son, Evan, receiving a special commemorative certificate from UMHL Staff Midwife, Carrie Crowley );
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The International Day of the Midwife was celebrated at University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) yesterday, May 5. The day focused on how local midwives have risen to the extraordinary challenge of Covid-19 to provide safe care to the women and infants of the Mid-West.
The event with its 2021 theme of ‘Follow the Data; Invest in Midwives’ serves as a prominent reminder of the importance of midwifery, and the invaluable care that midwives provide.
UL Hospitals Group has confirmed the gradual relaxation of a number of COVID-19 restrictions on access to University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL), as local transmission of COVID-19 decreases and the vaccination programme rolls out across the Mid-West.
The option of having a nominated partner present for anomaly scans has been reintroduced at the hospital this week, and from next Monday, April 26th fathers/parents of babies in the neonatal unit will be permitted to visit, 4.30pm-6.30pm, subject to activity in the unit.
Weekly risk assessment is ongoing at the hospital with a view to giving a nominated partner 45-minute visiting slots on the hospital’s postnatal wards, M1 and M2, from May 10th 2020 between the hours of 6pm and 8pm daily.