Private hospital operator, Sheehan Medical, has announced that Siemens has been awarded the €8.5m contract to provide financing and healthcare technology in the Cork Medical Centre.
The centre is due to open in September and will be the first new private hospital facility to open in the city for 30 years. Owned by Sheehan Medical, the Cork Medical Centre will be a technology driven hospital that will lead the field with the newest and most promising interventions for stroke, brain tumours, back pain and other sites of chronic pain.
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The contract includes financing for all the hospitals equipment from Siemens Financial Services, the company’s first deal in Ireland.
The Cork Medical Centre will be a 5-star facility providing 75 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control. The main focus of the hospital will be surgery; there will be four operating theatres and a same day surgery centre with 20 outpatient beds. The hospital, which is located at the City Gate Complex in Mahon Point, will have a strong focus on neurology and cardiology.
The hospital will also house an intensive care unit, radiology and cardiology, oncology and neuroscience facility.
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