St Luke’s Home were delighted to receive a cheque for €1,500 from Freddy Yelverton and the United Nations Veterans at Collins Barracks towards the ongoing household model of care in Maguire House, St Luke’s Dementia Specific Unit. We are very very grateful, for their support.
St Lukes home were delighted to play host to a group of 22 business students and their professors from Caldwell University, New Jersey, USA. Their day in Cork consisted of a trip to Janssen which included a tour of the plant and a presentation from the general manager, Kyran Johnson on the operation and business issues of the day. This was followed by a visit and tour of the St Lukes facility. David O Brien, CEO, gave the group an insight into how Ireland looks after its older generation in terms of nursing home care along with a history of […]
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As part of Proclamation Day our Oldest Resident Ita O’ Donovan raised the National Flag followed by the singing of the National Anthem led by Nagle Community Schoool. Our Chaplain Rev. Sarah Marry led a short reflection and prayers and the event concluded with a few words shared by Ita O’ Donovan
St Luke’s Home is delighted to welcome Mrs Pauline O’Neill as its new Deputy Director of Nursing. Pauline joins the Home having worked in a senior management role in St Finbarrs Hospital for several years in the Care of the Elderly. With a Higher Diploma in Gerontology Pauline is delighted to be on the St Luke’s team and is looking forward to working with everyone in continuing and maintaining the excellent levels of care that St. Luke’s so far has achieved.
On Thursday, 10th September over 330 runners gathered in Mahon, Cork to support the first St Luke’s Home Memorial 5K Run. The St. Luke’s Home Foundation wanted to introduce an event to its calendar that embraced the Mahon Community, Health, Fitness and Fun. Everyone involved in the Charity is delighted that the event lived up to these expectations. It was also an opportunity to remember past residents and to involve people of all ages, all families, volunteers, supporters, staff, and indeed all who have an involvement, however small, with the Home.
Oonagh O’Driscoll, Director of the St Luke’s Home Foundation said: Support for St Luke’s […]
Over 300 delegates and 20 exhibitors gathered for St. Luke’s Home Annual Conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork last Thursday. The conference was a great success challenging delegates to ‘think outside the box’.
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Pictured from left-right: Bruce Pierce, Director of Education St. Luke’s Home, Catherine Buckley, Practice Development Lecturer St. Luke’s Home, Prof. Jan Dewing, Key Note Speaker Sue Pembry Chair in Nursing, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Rt. Rev. Dr. Paul Colton, President St. Luke’s Home
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, The Right Reverend Dr. Paul Colton has announced the appointment of Reverend Sarah Marry as Chaplain to St Luke’s Home.
Since Rev. Brian O’Rourke moved to Portlaoise in December, Sarah has been regularly visiting the Home in her capacity as a curate in the parishes of Douglas Union with Frankfield. In this new appointment she will also serve as the Priest-in-Charge of the parish of St. Anne, Shandon.
Sarah will officially take up this new role shortly after Easter, and on behalf of everyone here we are delighted to welcome her officially to St. Luke’s […]
Five years ago, when the new Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork was being built on its new site at Curraheen, County Cork, Bishop Paul Colton asked the Directors of St. Luke’s Home in Cork to donate €1 million to the project, and they readily agreed. The final instalment of that promised €1 million gift was paid recently. Bishop Colton, Chairperson of St. Luke’s, was invited by the chairperson of Marymount, Professor Cillian Twomey, to visit the St. Luke’s Home Day Care Unit at the Hospice which was built using the donation from St. Luke’s. Also present were the CEOs […]
Oonagh O’Driscoll (St. Luke’s Home) Lord Mayor Councillor Catherine Clancy, Lenore Welch Mc Gahan, David O’Brien (St. Luke’s Home) and Sinead Brady(Pepsico)
Pictured at the launch of Reminiscence in Collins Barracks, Cork. Sponsors: PepsiCo, McCarthy Insurance, Mahon Point, RCI, Qcafe and Homeinstead Senior Care
Noeleen Cronin and Mick O’Driscoll (Home Instead Senior Care) with Alex O’Neill (Mahon Point Shopping Centre)
St Luke’s Home – an ecumenical church-based charity which has cared for the elderly as well as dementia and Alzheimer’s sufferers in Cork since 1872 – has started the new year by welcoming a new Director of Nursing to its management team.
Neil Mackay was welcomed to his new post by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, and also Mr David O’Brien, CEO of St Luke’s. The new Director of Nursing started his work at the Home on 6th January.
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