Advanced Recovery Kanturk -ARK & St Stephens Hospital, Cork

02/07/2021

Nice Team memory from 3 years ago
Reminder - we are a very good, enthusiastic & kind MDT / Mental Health Team - and we offer a 24 hour admission service as well as, crisis and community team expertise for individuals and families
Don’t struggle alone - we are here to help

30/06/2021

Celebrating the staff of St Stephen’s Hospital and Advanced Recovery Kanturk (ARK) Community Team 💙
Probably the Best little hospital and MDT team in the World!!! 😁
So proud to work here
transmission to patients in the whole of the pandemic

31/03/2021

Happy Peaceful & Healthy Easter 🌻 Nice to take time out to reflect, breathe in... breathe out ....& hold on the exhale ... (and listen to the birds)

19/02/2021

St Stephen’s inpatients & staff vaccinations are well underway.

Due to the excellent vigilance of the wonderful staff here - we have had ZERO outbreaks since last March2020 in our gem of a hospital.
This is something to really celebrate.
The Consultant staff are truly grateful to all the Nursing staff in particular and all the MDT, Noonan’s cleaning, portering, waste management, admin kitchen and ancillary staff that made this a determined goal and succeeded. ❤️

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22/12/2020

Happy Christmas ! 🌹

01/10/2020

What a great boy. Have a lovely peaceful day 🌻

24/09/2020

Anxiety -It’s all of us ,Everyday. Replace a negative thought about yourself with a very simple positive one. Any kind of positive will do.
Focus on that while taking quiet breaths counting to 5 on the exhale. Try it just once -

28/06/2020

Week 26: Dr Ann Payne

Dr Ann Payne is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Cork.
She has a special interest in the interface of Mental Health and Frontline EMS, Emergency Department personnel & Paramedics and is involved in active research and teaching in these areas. She undertakes regular sessions in the practice of Emergency Medicine at Cork University Hospital.

Dr Payne was awarded a Fellowship Sports & Exercise Medicine (FFSEM) 2018 from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) & Royal College of Physicians (RCPI). She was the recipient of the Presidents Award for Outstanding Service from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in October 2018.

She is the Director of the PRiME course which provides training in Emergency Medicine for Psychiatrists since 2015.

She is also a qualified ATLS instructor and holds a Masters Degree in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

She was the Clinical Lead of the first Home Based Crisis Team in Cork city.

She has published research in the management of medical comorbidity in Psychiatry, Intellectual Disability, Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment.

She is a Senior Clinical Lecturer, UCC and a tutor for Medical Students, the National Intern Rotation, and Psychiatry Trainees.

She is a Balint group leader in Reflective Practice in UCC Deanery and the College of Psychiatrists in Ireland.

She has completed courses in Wilderness Emergency Medicine, Counter Narcotics & Terrorism Operational Medical Support and Wilderness Medicine (WEMS) for Medical Directors.

She also participated in the RESUSCITATE Surgical procedures course/cadaver workshop in 2018.

She is an Editorial Board member of JEMS, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.
She is an Associate member of Irish Association Emergency Physicians (IAEM) and an International member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

Her current project innovation is with Advanced Recovery Kanturk (ARK), a community-based mental health initiative.

She competed in her first Half-Ironman in May 2018 and is a member of the Cork Triathlon Club.

24/06/2020

04/06/2020

Very happy to work with such wonderful Consultant colleagues NCHDs, Interns and patients
In St Stephen Hospital, North Cork, and Advanced Recovery Kanturk (ARK)

Induction day in St Stephens Hospital. Welcome to Psychiatry, where we manage mental and physical health together with a Bio-Psycho-Social...