Vhi announces plans to open Vhi 360 Health Centre at Carrickmines
Flagship Clinical Facility Will Span 5 Floors and 5,000sq metres
13th December 2021 – Vhi today announced plans to open a flagship multi-disciplinary clinical facility, Vhi 360 Health Centre in Carrickmines, Dublin, just off the M50, early next year. This Centre will be 5,000sq metres, encompassing 5 floors of clinical and healing space. Vhi 360, first established in Limerick, provides Vhi customers with access to top of the range health and wellbeing services delivered by a highly trained multi-disciplinary healthcare team - all under the one roof. Vhi 360 at Carrickmines will pioneer a new model of healthcare in Ireland. This new model of care will take a holistic view of the patient’s health including physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
Vhi 360 Health Centre at Carrickmines will be home to Ireland’s largest urgent care facility and will be staffed by a range of clinicians with fellowships in urgent care through the RCSI and Integrative Medicine and will focus on health promotion and prevention, as well as treatment.
The 5,000sq metre facility will provide Vhi with increased capacity to meet the growing demand for existing services. These will include urgent care, paediatrics, orthopaedics, physio and out of hour dental services. It will also provide an expanded range of diagnostic services with onsite access to two X-ray machines, MRI, Ultrasound and Dexa equipment. Additionally, it will deliver new innovative personalised healthcare programmes designed to meet the patients’ individual needs and preferences using a proven clinician led approach to healthcare. This approach to healthcare will join traditional medicine with lifestyle and alternative therapies such as sleep management, physio, psychotherapy, nutrition, resilience, yoga, pilates and meditation, helping to deliver treatments and preventative solutions that address all aspects of a patient’s wellbeing.
Mr Declan Moran, CEO, Vhi Group said: “Vhi has a long history of driving change and innovation in healthcare in Ireland. Vhi has progressively evolved its clinical offerings over the years to include enhanced health and wellbeing services. In the New Year, we will bring this to a new level by introducing a whole new approach to how people’s health and wellbeing is managed. Our new flagship facility Vhi 360 at Carrickmines will allow us to deliver this care in a bespoke building with highly trained clinicians in custom designed physical spaces”.
He continued “Vhi 360 at Carrickmines is coming on stream at a critical point as all frontline healthcare services are under pressure and this will help to alleviate pressure on both public and private facilities. Moving more healthcare to a community setting means that more people can get access to the care they need, when they need it.”
Dr Nick Young, Clinical Director, Vhi Health & Wellbeing said: “the model of care at the Vhi 360 Health Centre at Carrickmines is built around the following principles - patient centred, healing orientated, considering the body, mind and spirit as part of any treatment plan. This approach to healthcare provides all the necessary supports that a patient might require to be nurtured back to full health and treats much more than just the physical ailment. It is an internationally proven model of care and we believe it will transform our customers’ and patients’ experience of health and wellbeing. Vhi 360 will be home to many of our current services and much more, providing access to urgent care, diagnostics, paediatrics, outpatient and specialist-led services such as a minor procedures clinic, wound care clinics, physiotherapy and psychology. It will also offer a full range of health and wellbeing services from lifestyle supports to complementary and alternative medicine such as 360 health coaching, yoga, pilates and meditation classes.”
Vhi has a growing network of healthcare facilities that are making a meaningful difference to people’s health and wellbeing. The Vhi 360 Health Centre model builds on our legacy of healthcare provision. Vhi already owns and operates healthcare services including Vhi SwiftCare Clinics, Health Screening Centre’s, Paediatric Clinics and Vhi Hospital@Home services and in 2020 there were over 290,000 health and wellbeing interactions with our customers In 2020 Vhi launched its first Vhi 360 Health Centre in Limerick and it has plans to open further facilities over the next few years. Vhi 360 Health Centre at Carrickmines, Dublin will open in Q1 2022.
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Issued by:
Brighid Smyth, Head of Corporate Communications
Phone: 086 827 0905 brighid.smyth@vhi.ie
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13-Dec-2021