Jobs at Sheehan Medical’s new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre

Recruitment for the Cork Medical Centre private hospital is now in full swing.  The first departments to open will be Day Surgery, Endoscopy and Radiology. The hospital’s operators Sheehan Medical are now looking to fill a number of specific roles, which are outlined below:

- Experienced Health Care Assistants
- Porters
- Endoscopy Nurses
- Head of Medical Records
- Cardiac Cath lab Manager
- Hotel Services Manager
- Chief Financial Officer
- Infection Control Manager
- Laboratory Manager
- Chief Pharmacist
- Radiological Service Manager
- Radiological Specialists – Senior Radiographers, Sonographer, MRI Clinical Specialist
- Radiological Receptionist
- Phlebotomist
- Purchasing Manager
- Scheduling Manager

There will be more roles to follow, to apply for any of these roles or request a job specification please contact Siobhan Kennedy at hr@corkmedicalcentre.com

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Construction of private hospital: Cork Medical Centre

Work on the Cork Medical Centre (CMC) is progressing well and nearing completion in time for its opening on 16th September, 2010.

I’m currently having weekly PR meetings in Cork in the run up to the launch and last week I took some videos and photos to show how fit out is progressing.

The video below shows a 360 degree view of the fantastic City Gate development where the CMC is located. City Gate is first class with exceptional quality of workmanship and finishes. It was developed by local cork developers John Cleary Developments (JCD).

Also on site at City Gate is Cork’s only VHI SwiftCare Clinic, located only a minute’s walk to CMC. This short video below shows how close the entrances to both facilities are.

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Construction photos of Sheehan Medical’s new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre.

Below is an aerial photo of the City Gate office development in Mahon Cork and fit out photos – please click on the images to see the whole photo.

City Gate, Mahon Cork: CMC is bottom left.

Opening 16th September, 2010.

View from the bottom of the Atrium

Doors being lifted up the atrium of CMC

New link bridge at CMC City Gate

Siemens wins €8.5m deal

This is article appeared in Irish Sunday newspaper The Sunday Business Post, on 18th July, 2010 and covers the €8.5m equipment and financing deal that the private hospital developer Sheehan Medical awarded to German firm Siemens.

Article from The Sunday Business Post

Siemens wins €8.5m deal
18 July 2010

Healthcare provider Sheehan Medical has awarded an €8.5 million contract to Siemens Healthcare to supply equipment for its new facility, Cork Medical Centre.

Under the agreement, Siemens Financial Services will provide finance for all of the equipment to be used in the hospital. Siemens Healthcare will provide angiography, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography, x-ray and ultrasound equipment.

‘‘We have first class technology in all our hospitals and aim to make the Cork Medical Centre the most high-tech facility ever developed in Ireland.

Siemens is an important part of this aim, its ability to provide an integrated approach that covers innovative technology will allow us levels of diagnosis and treatment that will be in unsurpassed in this country,” said James Sheehan, chief executive, Sheehan Medical.

Cork Medical Centre will be the anchor tenant in City Gate, a mixed-use scheme in Mahon.

The €90 million facility will have 75 in-patient rooms, four operating theatres and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds. It will also house an intensive care unit and cardiology and neuroscience units.

Sheehan Medical is operated by James Sheehan and his father, Dr Joseph Sheehan, who is chairman. Joseph Sheehan was one of the founders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin in 1984.He was also part of the consortium that built the Galway Clinic in 2004.

Cork private hospital in €8.5 million finance deal

Below is coverage from today’s Sunday Business Post that covers the deal that Sheehan Medical have signed with Siemens for their new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre.

I have pasted the text in below and also include a link in case you want to the view the article on the SBP’s website.

http://www.thepost.ie/story/ojaucwsnsn/

Cork private hospital in €8.5 million finance deal
04 July 2010 By Susan Mitchell

Backers of a new €90 million private hospital in Cork have just agreed an €8.5 million financing deal over seven years with Siemens Healthcare.

The new Irish private hospital operator, Sheehan Medical, will use the funding to purchase healthcare technology, ICT and diagnostic equipment at the Cork Medical Centre which is due to open in September. It will be the first new private hospital to open in the city for 30 years.

Jobs at Sheehan Medical’s new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre

The recruitment process for Cork’s newest private hospital the Cork Cork Medical Centre (CMC) is now underway. Based at City Gate in Mahon, Cork City the hospital is the first private facility to open in Cork for over thirty years.  Cork Medical Centre will open in September.

There is a new email address for CV which should be sent to hr@sheehanmedical.com

Please contact us for further details via the Cork Medical Centre’s Facebook page via the link below

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cork-KY/Cork-Medical-Centre/345303049764?ref=ts&_a=17

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Sheehan Medical the million dollar men

Sheehan Medical recently signed a deal with Boston firm MEDITECH for an integrated IT system for their new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre in Cork. It was covered in the Done Deal section of the The Sunday Business Post yesterday. Here is a link to the article, which I have also pasted in below.

Sunday Business Post \’Done Deal\’ 9th May 2010: Sheehan Medical invests €750,000 in IT.

Sheehan Medical invests €750,000 in IT
09 May 2010 By Elaine O’Regan

Healthcare provider Sheehan Medical is investingUS$1 million (€750,000) in an integrated IT system for its new facility, Cork Medical Centre.

The first phase of the system by Boston-based Meditech, will be completed in August in time for the centre’s opening.

The second phase of the project, which will integrate the hospital’s clinical and financial systems, will be completed early next year.

Philip Sheehan, chief operating officer of Cork Medical Centre, said that the system would make all medical information, relating to each of the hospital’s patients, accessible to all of the consultants handling their care.

‘‘This is from entry to the facility through to completion of treatment and, crucially, it can also be accessed by all medical practitioners undertaking subsequent external aftercare, such as GPs or physiotherapists,” said Sheehan.

Cork Medical Centre will be the anchor tenant in City Gate, a mixed-use scheme in Mahon by local developer John Cleary.

Extending to 135,000 square feet, the €75 million City Gate facility will have 75 in-patient rooms, four operating theatres and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.

The facility will also house an intensive care unit and cardiology and neuroscience units.

Projected revenues for its first year of operation are €20 million, rising to €40 million in year five.

Sheehan Medical is operated by chief executive James Sheehan and his father, Dr Joseph Sheehan, who is chairman.

Joseph Sheehan was one of the founders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin in 1984. He was also part of the consortium that built the Galway Clinic in 2004.

When it is completed, it is expected that Cork Medical Centre will create 300 direct jobs and 150 ancillaryp ositions. There will be 75 doctors located on-site, providing up to 39,000 patient treatments annually.

In addition to Cork Medical Centre, Philip Sheehan said that the Meditech system had been used in other Sheehan owned medical facilities.

‘‘We have been working with Meditech at our other hospitals for a number of years,” he said.

‘‘Their IT system was adopted by our Galway Clinic in 2004,where it is a great success and it is also in use at the Hermitage and Beacon clinics, and Mount Carmel Group hospitals. This type of advanced IT system is crucial to the modern patient care and the efficient running of the hospital.”

Sheehan Medical has agreed a separate US deal with Loyola University Health System, which will manage a number of services at Cork Medical Centre. In conjunction with Loyola, it is developing a €37 million hospital in Chicago.

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Cork’s 96FM post news transcripts on it’s website

Yesterday I released a big announcement for Sheehan Medical, the private hospital operator who are developing the Cork Medical Centre in Cork; they have signed a $1m deal with Boston IT company MEDITECH.  The full media press release is here. http://www.tinyurl.ie/mt. This was covered very widely in the media yesterday, here’s The Examiner’s coverage http://www.tinyurl.ie/mu.

The story was covered on a number of local radio stations and, thanks to the internet, I was able to listen to monitor their news coverage myself from Dublin. It is very esay to obtain copies of radio coverage in MP3, the cost is about €40 from a media monitoring service, and it is quite easy to rip them from the internet yourself these days. But what is great about one radion station namely Cork’s 96 FM http://www.96fm.ie is they put transcript’s of the news coverage on their website.

This is great for us as we have a written record that we can link to and it makes a lot of sense for the radio station because they have already written scripts so they might as well us the text to add news content to their website. What would be great too if they provide the MP3 on line next to the coverage. Here’s a link to the details Cork’s 96fm covered on the Sheehan Medical announcement.

So, if you get any coverage on Cork’s 96fm and miss the coverage you should try their website, you never know what you might find (incidentally most media monitoring companies, such as Media Market, can get MP3s of the major radio stations for a month after they’ve aired).

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Sheehan Medical agrees $1m deal with MEDITECH for Cork Medical Centre

US technology firm awarded contract to provide Health Care Information System (HCIS) to Cork’s newest private hospital

The development of Cork’s newest hospital, the Cork Medical Centre (CMC) in Mahon, is continuing unabated. The facility will be the first private hospital developed in Ireland’s second city for thirty years and is the one developed by the Sheehan family in Munster.

The Sheehan’s have been at the forefront of private hospital development in Ireland; brother Dr Joe Sheehan and Dr Jimmy Sheehan first developed the Dublin’s Blackrock Clinic back in the early eighties. They then built the Galway and Hermitage Clinics.

The Cork Medical Centre is being lead by Dr Joe Sheehan, who is the Chairman of Sheehan Medical and his sons James Sheehan, Chief Executive Officer, and Philip Sheehan, Chief Operating Officer. The Sheehan’s pride themselves on bringing the latest best practices in health care from the US and crucial to this is leading technology; as part of their aim to make CMC the most technologically advanced hospital in Ireland the have today announced it will have  Ireland’s most high-tech IT system after they awarded the $1m / €740,000 contract to MEDITECH, the provider of health care software based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The new €90m hospital, which will open in the summer, will now include MEDITECH’s Health Care Information System (HCIS); which fully integrates the hospital’s clinical and financial systems. It is the most integrated hospital information system available and is in operation in 2,200 medical facilities across the World.

The paperless system means that all information related to the patient’s care is accessible by any of the team of consultants at hospital, from entry to facility through to completion of treatment and crucially it can also be accessed by all medical practitioners undertaking subsequent external after care, such as GPs or physiotherapists.

The use of next generation IT systems is a speciality of Sheehan Medical, which prides itself on the cutting edge technology at its facilities and makes it a priority to bring the latest US techniques and equipment to Ireland. MEDITECH’s system was adopted by their Galway Clinic in 2004, where it’s a great success and it is also in use at the Hermitage and Beacon clinics, and Mount Carmel Group hospitals. It has now been licensed to meet the specific needs of the Cork Medical Centre.

Philip Sheehan, Chief Operating Officer of the Cork Medical Centre, said: ‘‘We pride ourselves in having the latest technology in all our hospitals and aim to make the Cork Medical Centre the most high-tech hospital ever developed in Ireland. The success of this deal marks the next stage of the on-going six year relationship between Sheehan Medical and MEDITECH; their system will play a key role in providing the very best care for our patients at the new Cork facility.”

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About Cork Medical Centre – www.corkmedicalcentre.com

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 out-patient beds. The facility will also house an intensive care unit; radiology facilities with MRI / CT / X-ray scanners; a cardiology and neuroscience facility. International accreditation, benchmarking and auditing will be provided by an internationally renowned healthcare organisation. Further details can be found at www.corkmedicalcentre.com

About Sheehan Medical – www.sheehanmedical.com

Sheehan Medical was set up to operate private hospitals in the UK, Britain and mainland Europe. The company is operated by Chief Executive, James Sheehan, and his father Dr Joseph Sheehan C.M., who is Chairman.

Sheehan Medical’s aim is to bring best practice in US medical techniques and standards to Ireland. The company prides itself in combining the operation of first class medical facilities with a successful business model. The unique share holding structure allows doctors and consultants to buy into the ownership of their hospitals and share in the financial success.

An active surgeon for over 35 years Chairman, Dr Joseph Sheehan, a Dublin native, was one of the founders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, which opened in 1984. In January 2006, he was part of a small group that purchased the controlling interest in the Blackrock Clinic from BUPA. An €80m expansion project is currently underway.

In 2004 he again partnered with his brother Jimmy to open the Galway Clinic, which received international recognition and re-established Dr. Sheehan’s commitment to raising healthcare standards through dedication to quality improvement and technological advances.

About MEDITECH – www.meditech.com

MEDITECH has been the leader in the Health Care Information Systems (HCIS) industry since 1969. MEDITECH’s applications unify clinical, administrative, and financial information across a health care organization, including acute care, long-term care, home health care, and physician practices. Today, more than 2,200 institutions worldwide use MEDITECH’s information systems.

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Funds secured for new Cork hospital

I posted a recent media release about Sheehan Medical’s new private hospital in Chicago here http://www.republicpr.ie/2010/02/07/sheehan-family-launches-50m-clinic-partnership-loyola-university/ last week on the day the story appeared in The Sunday Times. Here is another article on the project that also covers their new Irish project in Cork. The article appeared yesterday in The Sunday Business Post. I have copied the article in below, but a link to the original source is here:http://www.sbpost.ie/news/ireland/funds-secured-for-new-cork-hospital-47396.html

THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST - Funds secured for new Cork hospital

14 February 2010 By Susan Mitchell

The developer of a new private hospital in Cork has secured loans of €30 million to complete the fit-out of the project. Bank of Ireland provided most of the funding to Cleary Developments, which is building the facility at the City Gate Medical campus in Mahon. It will be operated by Sheehan Medical, the hospital operator which has interests in the Blackrock and Galway clinics.

James Sheehan, chief executive of Sheehan Medical, said the banks had been encouraged by the number of doctors that had invested in the Cork hospital.

He said that 12 doctors have taken equity in the project, and another 40 doctors had signed contracts to take suites. Sheehan said that there had been a lot of interest from Irish doctors living overseas who wanted to return home but could not get public consultancy posts. He said that he expected the hospital to stimulate competition in the south of the country, where its main rival is the Bon Secours.

Sheehan Medical planned to undercut prices at the Bon Secours by 10-15 per cent, said Sheehan. A recent decision by the Health Service Executive to close 1,000 beds would also have a direct impact on the private sector, he said.

‘‘Many of those patients will feed into the private sector. You can not stop the flow of patients,” Sheehan said. He said he was not concerned about the impact that lower reimbursement rates from health insurer VHI would have on the hospital’s business model.

‘‘I think the VHI will welcome our arrival. We haven’t begun negotiations with them, but the net effect will be a reduction in the cost of healthcare in the south,” he said.

Sheehan said the cost of the Cork project had dropped from a projected €90 million to €75 million due to a fall in fit-out costs.

The hospital will have 75 in-patient beds, 20 out-patient beds, four operating theatres and a day surgery centre. More than 350 jobs will be created to run the hospital, and Sheehan Medical has a deal with Loyola University Health System, which will manage a number of services at the hospital. Sheehan Medical is also developing a $50 million (€36.8 million) hospital in Chicago in conjunction with Loyola.

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