Monthly Archives: June, 2022

New CEO Bons Secours Glasnevin

HMI Council Member, Sharon Morrow has been appointed Chief Executive, of the Bons Secours Hospital in Glasnevin, Dublin. She will take up her new...

It is a privilege to serve the public as a health manager

By Tony Canavan, HMI President.

Healthcare management profession in Ireland will rise to climate challenge

Message from Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport. When the Health Management Institute was established 75 years ago, the world...

HMI Council 2022

Breda Crehan-RocheVice President, HMI Chief Officer, Community Healthcare West, Health Service Executive

HMI 75th Anniversary Time Capsule

To mark the 75th Anniversary of the HMI, a time capsule - to be opened in June 2045 - will be buried on the campus of HSE...

HMI origins stretch back to 1917

The Health Management Institute of Ireland, originally known as the Institute of Hospital Administrators, was founded in 1945 but its origins go back much...

HMI Presidents over the years

PresidentsAlfred W McDermottSecretary/Superintendent, St Laurence's Hospital1945-1961William LeadbeatterSecretary, Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street1961-1963Charles J RussellSecretary Manager, National Maternity Hospital1963-1972Matilda GilmartinSecretary, St Ultan's Hospital,...

Investigation of suicidal behaviours in adults with ADHD in Ireland

A study of 136 adults with ADHD in Ireland showed that 20 per cent had attempted suicide, while a further 61 per cent had...

Only 37% of STEMI patients sought medical help within 60 minutes

Only 37% of patients with a major heart attack, known as an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). sought medical help within 60 minutes of onset of...

Past – Present – Future

My career has spanned almost four decades and I have many happy memories of my time in the Irish Health Services. Indeed, there has...

Covid 19 has reaffirmed both the need to continue to implement the Sláintecare reforms and the rationale behind these reforms

Our experience, in the Saolta University Healthcare Group, over the last two years both reaffirmed the need for the reforms outlined in Sláintecare and...

Lucy Nugent elected President of EAHM

Former HMI President, Lucy Nugent, was elected President of the European Association of Healthcare Managers (EAHM), at its 52nd General Assembly in Vilnius, Lithuania in...

Priorities of new President-elect of EAHM

A collaborative approach to the profession of health management and the accreditation of healthcare managers, with EAHM as an accrediting body, is one of...

Healthcare managers need to make their ideas known and defend them to national and supranational decision-makers

The EAHM was founded in 1970 in France.  Its Head Office is in Strasbourg and its offices, i.e. its operational headquarters, are currently in Luxembourg,...

Prioritizing Leadership, Governance Can Help Strengthen Healthcare

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, few could have predicted everything healthcare leaders and front-line teams around the...

Fifty-six years of HOPE in Europe

The European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) is an international non-profit organisation. It represents both national, public and private hospital associations as well as...

RCSI supporting the HOPE Exchange Programme

One of the clear objectives for HOPE since its foundation has been the promote exchange of knowledge and good practice. In 2019 the Royal...

Health Managers need to watch the sea while others watch the waves

Having accepted the editor’s invitation to contribute an article to this special issue of Health Manager, I wondered what healthcare topics were attracting attention...

HMI Training – a proud pedigree!

One of the stated aims of the Institute is the development of standards of management competence and practice since it was founded in 1945....

Leadership Evolution in Healthcare

It is widely accepted that good leadership is important in ensuring that organisations are effective, efficient and humane, writes Prof. Ciaran O’Boyle.  The culture and...

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