Western General Hospital Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre (ARC)
Services:
The ARC provides day hospital attendance for comprehensive assessment of frail older people. This is an outpatient service, which may involve one or several attendances, scheduled weekly. It is run between 9 – 4pm Monday to Friday. Patients attend for the whole morning, to early or mid afternoon (sandwich lunch provided) and return visits are scheduled as necessary.
Limited ambulance transport is available to and from appointments for those who need it.
| Assessment/treatment for complex medical problems | Available Resources: |
| Specialist medical and nursing procedures e.g. blood transfusion, zolendronate infusion, leg ulcer treatment | Medical team |
| Crisis intervention to prevent hospital admission | Nursing team |
| Management of complex long term conditions e.g. heart failure, COPD, leg ulcers, Parkinson’s disease | Physiotherapy |
| Falls assessment and prevention programme | Occupational therapy |
| Rehabilitation | Speech and language therapy |
| Supported discharge of hospital inpatients | Diagnostics e.g. Blood tests, Radiology: plain x-ray, ultrasound, CT , ECG, echocardiogram, 24 hour ambulatory ECG, pulmonary function testing, ABPI Doppler’s, bladder scanning, 24 hour BP monitoring |
Consultants Dr Jo Cowell, Dr Conor Maguire, Dr John Mair
Speciality Doctor Dr Inas Saad
