HSE Dublin and South East marks retirement of Eiís Geraghty

A long career in the provision of healthcare in the South East was marked by the HSE this week, upon the retirement of Eilis Geraghty.

In recent years Eilís Geraghty has served as General Manager in Services for the Older Person in the Carlow-Kilkenny/Tipperary South Integrated Healthcare Area.

A native of Co. Galway and settled in Co. Wexford, Eilís Geraghty began her nursing career at University Hospital Galway and then served in the UK in the 1980s. During the 1990s, Eilís returned to Ireland and worked in James Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

It was in 2002 that Eilís first moved to the South East, taking up a nursing post at St. Columba’s Hospital in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. In the years since, Eilís also served in St. John’s Community Hospital in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and was Director of Nursing at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Carlow.

More recently, as she developed an expertise in regulations and inspections compliance, Eilís was part of HSE teams working on such matters at national level before taking up a management post in community healthcare in the South East.

At a reception to mark the Eilís’s retirement, held in the Waterford Residential Care Centre and in the presence of many of Eilís’s current and former colleagues, the HSE Dublin and South East’s Acting Head of Service/Older Persons for the Carlow-Kilkenny/Tipperary South and Waterford/Wexford Integrated Healthcare Areas Geraldine Sutton said:

“On behalf of the HSE, we thank Eilís Geraghty for her years of commitment and leadership.”

“Throughout her time in the health services Eilís’s dedication to patients, the nursing profession and older persons services has been a valued and appreciated one. Always compassionate in her decision making and with an in-depth knowledge of the people working in and the public supported by our services, Eilís Geraghty is one of the outstanding public servants.”

“We wish Eilís and her family well as she retires from decades of distinguished service to people, particularly here in the South East.”