Ballinamore Community Nursing Unit and Primary Care Centre, Co. Leitrim

AtkinsRéalis provided the Civil and Structural Engineering services for the recently completed New Community Nursing Unit and Primary Care Centre in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. The new building is located on a ten acre site at Tully, Ballinamore.

The Community Nursing Unit (CNU) contains 20 beds and act as a step down facility for patients well enough to be discharged from general hospital but not well enough to go home or those who require additional therapies. It also contains a commercial kitchen, staff changing areas, sitting and dining rooms, a treatment room, hair and beauty room, prayer room and supports facilities. The Primary Care Centre, which is co-located with the CNU on the campus, contains GP clinic rooms, dentistry, nursing, and physiotherapy and occupation therapy treatment rooms.

The building structure comprises a mixture of loadbearing masonry and steel frame superstructure supports on ground beams on piled foundations. The site works include internal roads, car parking and almost 7 acres of landscaping with a new pedestrian crossing on the main Ballinamore Relief Road.

The finished project has created a very welcoming development, which will provide a valuable service to the surrounding community.

Client: HSE

Contractor: JJ Rhatigan & Company

Status: Complete