St. Lukes General Hospital

St. Luke’s General Hospital Carlow-Kilkenny is the Acute General Hospital for Counties Carlow and Kilkenny. The population of Kilkenny/Carlow Community Care area is 155,993 (Census 2016) which represents an overall increase of 4% since the 2011 census when the population was 150,031.

Due to its location in the heart of the South East, St. Luke’s General Hospital (in addition to the counties of Carlow and Kilkenny) also provides services to its bordering counties: Tipperary North and South, Waterford, Wexford, Kildare and Laois.

In addition to the acute services that are provided on site at St. Luke’s, outreach services are also provided in Kilcreene, Carlow, Thomastown and Castlecomer. The hospital has 303 beds.

Specialities

- General Medicine//Cardiology, Endocrynology, Gastro Enterology, Respiratory
- Geriatric Medicine
- Gynaecology
- Obstetrics
- Neurology
- ED - Emergency Medicine
- General Surgery
- Palliative Medicine
- Paediatrics
- Radiology
- Rheumatology (Visiting OPD Clinic with Dr. Oliver Fitzgerald, SVUH)
- Anaesthetics
- Consultant-Led and Nurse-Led Outpatient Clinics


General Visiting Hours 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 6.30pm - 9pm