St. Columba’s Hospital in Thomastown is to get a new community nursing unit/ residential care building.
The HSE has been granted planning permission for the new two-story expansion.
There will be 95 en-suite bedrooms for residents as well as dining rooms, kitchenettes, day rooms, and resident areas with family overnight room, visitor’s room.
There will also be a treatment room, a hairdressers salon, Internal courtyards and first floor terrace spaces along with all the staff areas.
Local Councillor Micheal Doyle says it’s a huge boost and the culmination of more than six years of campaigning for it.
