The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
September 21 date for local care centre
WINDMILL Healthcare is delighted to announce that its care centre in Castleisland is scheduled to open on September 21, 2020.
With a strong track record in the area of high quality care, the new development in the townland of Bawnaluska on College Road, has been widely welcomed by the community, especially as there is currently no other nursing home facility in the area.
“There is a very welcoming response to the addition of our care centre to the Kerry health services,” said Denis McElligott the group’s clinical director.
“We are delighted to be extending our spectrum of care to my home county of Kerry. We are now in a position where we can take bookings for rooms and provide assessments and assistance to Families looking for care,” said the Lixnaw native.
In a follow up to its Mayday 2019 recruitment drive at the River Island Hotel, Windmill Healthcare is planning another with the aim of having its full complement of staff in place for the September 21 opening date.
Building began in March 2019 and great progress was made up to the lockdown in March of this year. In a massive reputational boost for the group, its aforementioned clinical director,
Denis McElligott was featured on RTÉ One television news at the height of the Covid-19 crisis declaring that the virus had been kept at bay in all of its five centres throughout the country.
Griffin Brothers are now in the final and finishing phase of the work on the College Road addition to the group’s string of facilities to its opening in early autumn.