Tallaght - on the southwest corner of Dublin, in view of the Wicklow mountains,
Our Lady's at Crumlin,
and the University Children's Hospital at Temple Street.
We learned a lot about the Irish health care system and found plenty of similarities. One striking difference is that social workers DON'T deal with the nuts and bolts of discharge planning; their role is much more of providing support, and deaingl with child protection and socio-economic issues, than of ordering supplies and homecare. Sounds kind of "grand" now, doesn't it?
(For the record, the brogues are mild here, but there's a certain inflection that's hard not to pick up)
There are plans afoot for a centralized National Children's Hospital to be built in 2014 that will consolidate the three we saw today, but there seems to be much political wrangling ahead before that actually happened. We hope our Irish colleagues will come a visit us in NYC. (Particularly Jenny, who sent us on to a lovely dinner at the Ely HQ Gastro Pub
Not many pictures, but here's one of the mountains by Tallaght (from one of our lengthy bus rides) and the registration desk at Crumlin, basically telling people they have to wait their turn.
Our Rock Star of the Day: The Edge, who's a benefactor of Crumlin. Didn't see him, but cool to feel the presence.
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