'Anxious residents uncertain of future' after Cork mental health centre move

Families of residents moved from Millfield House in Blackpool to facilitate social distancing during pandemic say they have received no information from the HSE as to where their relatives will be accommodated once the rental term at privately-rented Garnish House ends at some point in 2022

Declared unfit for purpose in 2020 by the HSE, a potential replacement property for Millfield, a former B&B named Glenwood House (pictured) was bought by the HSE in Carrigaline for €750,000 in January 2021. Picture: Larry Cummins

The HSE has failed to communicate with the families of residents of a Co Cork mental health facility in the two years since their relatives were suddenly moved to new accommodation.

The 15 residents of the HSE-owned Millfield House in Blackpool, many of whom had lived there for years, were moved from that residence to the privately-rented Garnish House in Cork City in April 2020, due to fears about Millfield’s inabilty to facilitate social distancing.