HSE considers Mount Carmel step-down option

The possibility of acquiring Mount Carmel as a step-down facility for elderly people in need of rehabilitation before returning home is being considered by the HSE.

Health Minister James Reilly said this was an option the HSE was actively exploring in the wake of the closure of the private Dublin hospital at the end of January and the loss of 330 jobs.

“We are very much interested and open to the idea of Mount Carmel as a step-down facility and the HSE is looking into that,” the minister told a Dáil health committee hearing yesterday.