ROOM with a view - one of the empty rooms awaiting the new residents at the new Community Nursing Unit in Tuam. Photo: Ray Ryan

Residents ready for move into new Tuam CNU

Disappointment facility is not yet operational

RESIDENTS are due to move into the new multi-million-euro Joe and Helen O'Toole Community Nursing Unit in Tuam later this month.

The HSE plan to move residents from the Aras Mhuire CNU on Dublin Road in "mid to late March” according to John Fitzmaurice, Chief Officer of the HSE’s Community Healthcare West division.

Responding to a query by Cllr Donagh Killilea, Mr Fitzmaurice told last week’s Regional Health Forum West meeting that the 50 beds in the Tuam CNU will be filled as soon as possible once it opens.

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