St Doolagh's Park Care & Rehabilitation Centre
Malahide Road, Balgriffin, Dublin 17, D17 YE97 Balgriffin
Our approach is person-orientated, recognising the unique story and preferences of each individual, ensuring quality of life with dignity, comfort and joy by delivering the highest standards of medical and supportive holistic services.
Personal services
- Religious services
- Hairdressing services
- Laundry services
- Beautician services
- Newspaper delivery
Green Spaces
- Outdoor garden areas
Paying for Care
- Pay Privately
- The Fair Deal Scheme
Facilities
- Dining rooms
- Wifi
- Free parking on-site
- Sitting rooms
- En-suites
Catering
- Dietician approved menus
- Personalised diet plans tailored to individual needs
- Fresh and nutritious prepared on-site
- Everyday choice and varied menu
Care
- 24 hour nursing care
- Chiropody
- Optometry
- GP and medical services
- Speech and language
- Physiotherapy
- Respite and convalescence care
- Dementia and Alzheimer's care
- Dentistry
More about St Doolaghs
St Doolagh’s Park Care & Rehabilitation Centre caters for residents who require long or medium term care with a primary diagnosis of an Acquired Brain Injury. An Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) can be the result of a road traffic accident, a stroke, brain hemorrhage, infection, tumor, or head trauma. Some of our residents require medium term care before they move onto another care setting such as assisted independent living.
St. Doolagh’s Park is situated in a beautiful parkland setting off the Malahide Road, in Balgriffin, Dublin 17, close to Malahide Village and Swords. Close to the last exit of the M50 motorway, the airport and the M1 Motorway and a regular bus service is provided at the entrance to St. Doolagh’s Park.
Who Comes to St Doolagh's?
St Doolagh's rehabilitation park caters to men and women from a range of ages over the age of 18. People who are suitable for our home have traumatic brain injuries, cerebrovascular attack/strokes, hypoxia, Korsakoffs, Infection conditions, or neoplasm/toxic or other conditions.
Awards: CARF ACCREDITATION (2022 to 2025)
St Doolagh’s Park Care and Rehabilitation Centre has been awarded accreditation by CARF Europe for its Residential Rehabilitation Brain Injury Speciality Programme and Person Centred Long Term Care Community. CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) is a worldwide independent, non-profit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centres on enhancing the lives of the persons served.
By pursuing and achieving accreditation, St Doolagh’s Park Care and Rehabilitation Centre has demonstrated that it meets international standards for quality and is committed to pursuing excellence. The accreditation decision of three years represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and demonstrates that St Doolagh’s Park has substantial conformance to the CARF standards.
An organization receiving a Three-Year Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable. The only other organizations in Ireland that have CARF accreditation are the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dublin, Headway and ABI Ireland. This is a great achievement by the team at St. Doolaghs.
Activities Programme
At St. Doolagh’s social activities play a key role in ensuring a community feel and positive atmosphere. We endeavor to provide a wide range of activities to cater for physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the residents. Our full-time Activities Co-ordinator plays a key role delivering a broad and exciting range of activities for our residents. These activities include: music therapy, art classes, dancing, trivia, current affair readings and discussion groups, music events, cinema trips, zoo trips, therapy dog, exercise groups, and gardening to name a few.
Food and Nutrition
Interesting and varied menus - quality food is such an important aspect of life in care. We focus on providing meals which comprise fresh, seasonal ingredients so that every meal is not only nutritious but also looks great and tastes delicious.
Read Eddie's Story
Eddie came in St Doolagh's after a stroke and is now living independently back in the community.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Care
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Caitriona C
Therapy Technician
St Doolagh's Park Care & Rehabilitation Centre
I feel very proud to be part of the team in St Doolagh's Park and the work we do here. No two days are the same. It feels very much like an extended family working so closely with residents, families and other staff members.
Director of Nursing
Margaret Giathi R.G.N is the Director of Nursing at St. Doolagh’s Park Care & Rehabilitation Centre. She has vast experience in both care of the elderly and care of residents with disabilities. Margaret leads a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) at St. Doolagh’s including the following;
Clinical Nurse Managers
Nursing Staff
G.P.
Senior Psychologist
Assistant Psychologist
Senior Occupational Therapist
Senior Physiotherapist
Activities Coordinator
Care & Rehabilitation Assistants
A Consultant Psychiatrist and Consultant Speech and Language Therapist can also be arranged for residents as required.
Families and Residents
Patients and Families, Friends and Carers
Our team of dedicated professionals will work tirelessly together to help you and your family adjust to your injury and learn how to help you achieve your personal rehabilitation goals. Giving you the opportunity to attain the highest level of independence possible.
We accept referrals from a wide range of agencies and sources including families, health and social services, medico-legal professionals and other service providers. St. Doolagh’s Park is fully registered with HIQA and has rehabilitation services accredited by CARF.
Services provided for Families
Our team of dedicated professionals will work tirelessly together to help you and your family adjust to your injury and learn how to help you achieve your personal rehabilitation goals. Giving you the opportunity to attain the highest level of independence possible.
We accept referrals from a wide range of agencies and sources including families, health and social services, medico-legal professionals and other service providers. St. Doolagh’s Park is fully registered with HIQA and has rehabilitation services accredited by CARF.
To be admitted to St. Doolagh’s, the individual must:
Have one of the following:
Acquired brain injury (ABI), which is an inclusive category that embraces acute (rapid onset) brain injury of any cause, including:
Trauma (head or post-surgical injury)
ii. Vascular accident (stroke or subarachnoid haemorrhage)Cerebral anoxia/hypoxia
Toxic or metabolic insult (e.g. hypoglycaemia)
Infection (e.g. meningitis, encephalitis) or other inflammation (e.g. vasculitis).
Have medical, cognitive, physical, communicative and/or behavioural needs related to the acquired brain injury or disease process (e.g. memory difficulties due to Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome)
Be aged over 18 years at time of admission
Have identified medical, cognitive, physical or communication needs
Have the potential to benefit from specialised inpatient rehabilitation from an interdisciplinary team
Exclusion Criteria
Where the potential for neuro-rehabilitation is overshadowed by other needs (e.g. physical/psychiatric/behavioral/drug and substance misuse)
Active risk of physical violence
Currently in post-trauma amnesia
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Care Services
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Rehabilitation Residential Services
St. Doolagh’s Park is a specialist rehabilitation centre that provides residential rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury.
We have developed two programmes;
- Specialist Residential Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Person-Centred Long Term Care
Both of these have achieved international accreditation from CARF (http://www.carf.org/home/) recognising the quality and outcomes of the service.
St. Doolagh’s Park provides a high quality, specialised assessment and rehabilitation service for people with cognitive, physical and/or emotional symptoms following an acquired brain injury.
SMART Goals
An individual’s rehabilitation programme is based around SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely) developed with them and the multidisciplinary team. The programme will include a combination of individual and group activities.
The focus is on enabling residents to function as independently as possible, develop their lives as they choose and to participate in as many of their previous roles and activities as possible. Ultimately, the aim is to enable service users to participate in life as fully and as independently as possible.
Rehabilitation Programme
Our clinical expertise, outstanding facilities and dedication to care means that residents are able to develop a recovery plan that suits their exact needs. We believe that it is never too late to benefit from rehabilitation and ensure that people using our services are supported to regain maximum independence. The rehabilitation programme is unique to the individual but this could include:
- Activities of daily living (ADL) assessment and training
- Adaptive equipment assessment and training
- Addiction support and counselling
- Assistive technology assessment and training
- Behavioural assessment and management
- Brain injury education
- Bowel and bladder training
- Clinical neuropsychological assessment
- Cognitive rehabilitation training
- Community orientation and integration
- Coping with and adjustment to disability support
- Discharge planning
- Dysphagia assessment and management
- Family/ support system education, training and counselling
- Independent living skills assessment and training
- Medical assessment and management
- Mobility assessment, review and training
- Nutritional counselling and management
- Pastoral and spiritual guidance
- Patient advocacy and support
- Patient education, training and counselling
- Pharmaceutical care, management and training
- Podiatry/Chiropody
- Psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic intervention
- Rehabilitation nursing
- Relaxation and Stress Management
- Safety awareness and training
- Sexuality counselling
- Smoking cessation training and support
- Spasticity management
- Speech/Language and communication assessment and training
- Splinting assessment and training
- Vocational assessment and counselling
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Life at St Doolagh's Park
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St Doolagh’s Park Care & Rehabilitation Centre
Malahide Road, Balgriffin, Dublin 17, D17 YE97 Balgriffin
- St Doolaghs is easily accessible from the N1 motorway. There is free car parking available onsite.
- St Doolaghs is easily accessible at 5 minute walk from the nearest bus stop, serviced by the numbers 14, 27, 53, 130, 42, 43.
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