The HSE plans to have its South Tipperary Community Assessment Hub up and running in Cahir within about two weeks.
Community Assessment Hubs are for patients who have a definite or presumptive diagnosis of Covid-19, and whose GP decides they need a face-to-face clinical assessment. Patients can only access the Community Assessment Hub following referral by their GP.
To-date, in the HSE’s South East Region, two of these hubs are operational. They are at Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny and University Hospital Waterford.
It is intended that a Wexford Community Assessment Hub (located at Wexford General Hospital) will be operational later this week.
The South Tipperary Hub, located at Cahir Primary Care Centre, will come into operation over the next two weeks. Should it be required, provision is in place for another Hub at St. Dympna’s Hospital, Carlow.
HSE/South East Community Healthcare’s aim in providing the Hubs, is so that anyone who requires a face-to-face clinical assessment can be reviewed within the primary care setting, as quickly as possible. This will assist patients who need assessment but who do not require immediate hospital care to avoid referrals to acute hospitals where possible.
Following review and clinical assessment at the Community Assessment Hubs, patients may either be asked to return home, referred to hospital or be referred to a self isolation facility when it is not feasible for an individual to self isolate within their own home.
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