ST FRANCIS RESIDENTS TO MEET WITH HSE WEST

Date Published: 13-Sep-2011

HSE West managers are planning to meet with residents of a city nursing home in the coming weeks to explain their decision to shut it down.

HSE managers answered questions from St Francis Nursing Home staff at a meeting in the home yesterday.

There are just 19 older people living in the home at the moment – the HSE West has reduced the number of residents living there by half since their decision to wind it up last year.

The campaign to save the nursing home stepped up a gear this week after city councillor Catherine Connolly criticised the Galway Government TDs for their failure to sign a petition calling on the HSE West not to close the facility.

Over 10,000 people have signed the petition so far, with campaigners now planning to take the petition to the Dáil.