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LIMERICK WILL SEE 300 new jobs created over the next five years by a medical coding company.
Massachusetts-based firm Fazzi Healthcare Services is setting up a new healthcare services and coding centre in the city, it announced this morning.
Ministers lined up to welcome the development with Jobs Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor and local TD Michael Noonan issuing statements through IDA Ireland.
The FDI agency’s own chief executive added, “This is terrific news for Limerick and for the entire region… There is a growing number of healthcare services located here and Fazzi, as the first company to engage in medical coding services in Ireland, is a positive addition to the life sciences profile of the midwest.”
Fazzi provides coding services to the American homecare and hospice sector.
Medical coding is the transformation of healthcare diagnoses, treatments, procedures, outcomes and services into universal medical alphanumeric codes, known as ICD.
Most countries, including Ireland, use this process to create codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease.
Today’s news comes after a €500 million investment in the city was announced on Monday.
Limerick Twenty Thirty Strategic Development, a special purpose vehicle set up by the local authority, has been tasked with delivering over €500 million worth of investment infrastructure across four strategic sites.
It is hoped the the venture will create more than 5,000 jobs over the next five years, transforming the city.
A statement said that Denis Brosnan, who previously led the giant Kerry group food business, will head up the Limerick Twenty Thirty company as executive chairman.
The firm will prioritise the redevelopment of 1.4 million sq ft of prime real estate across the four selected sites, and will look to deliver state-of-the-art office, retail, residential, education and commercial space.
With reporting by Fora
We deserve a massive reduction in our tv license for wasted money spent on producing shows such as Dancing with the stars and Ireland’s got talent. I know there’s an off button on my TV but these shows should only be visible on RTE Player and not mainstream.
I’d rather watch Christy Duignam tell his life story on the late late for the 10th time than to watch a bunch of overpaid RTE presenters & z listers buck leaping round a studio.
@Gareth Cooney: Ireland’s Got Talent is set for TV3 so no license fee money going there. It’ll last 2 seasons, at best, anyway.
@Pat Doran: IGT will be another Tops of the Parish show. Easily avoidable.
BREAKING NEWS: I won’t be talking about any of these shows!
@An Observer: ___ Not even to say “I don’t watch that crap?”
Jason Byrne is shockingly bad at every thing he dose….
@gold3n:
Some say he can’t even spell simple 4 letter words
@Tweety McTweeter: You’re missing an ‘a’ there
@gold3n: he is a bit of a dose.
@gold3n: but he does it LOUDLY, so its hilarious
Hold on a second. You’ve included Dancing With The Stars and Ireland’s Got Talent in your list of programmes included in the golden age of television? Surely you jest?
They may well be talked about, but purely in a derogatory fashion.
New comedy on RTÉ DANCING WITH THE STARS
@EC P Ford: It should be called “Dancing”
@Paul Furey: ___ It should be “Desperate Z Listers falling about because they’ve got nothing better to do.”
@EC P Ford: Dancing With The Stars’ Non Famous Siblings.
Great, more shows I can watch online. I don’t know about you people, but TV is just not for me.
@Dalya Al-Tulaihi: I was only saying the other day how much you’d miss the mundane show games or chat show repeats. Now everything you watch has to be just as exciting and as mysterious as the last show and you’re not going to be happy till you find something which could take ages. There’s very little you can throw on for the sake of it, You end up spending more time clicking and swiping which leads to more time spent in front of the screen. You have to pause it instead of waiting for the adds while you run to the jax or to make a cup of tea disturbing everyone’s viewing ,that’s if you’re lucky enough everyone’s not on their own screen. Online viewing is great all right and instant but sometimes you’d miss the traditional viewing.
@Hardly Normal: oh I totally agree!! But since no one in the house is bothered with the tv anyway it’s hard for me to bring that tradition back all by myself you know!? It’s great when the family is gathered and all are watching the same show, but the older you grow the more distant you become from family because everyone start to have their own taste in shows, movies, etc.
I was reading the article skeptically, however, there is a lot of good shite in there.
What about doctor who
Looking into the future like former Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Must watch TV my arse.
@Paul Coughlan: biffo can read the future through interpreting his Guinness shytes.
Load of shite
@JJ: What a waste of 160. for a license
They missed a trick in not getting Kim Kardashian to play donatella Versace as she is morphing into her recently
Bring back the Riordans I say !!!
What did you use to ‘bait’ your breath? Maggots? Worms?
Just waiting for the next episode of Designated survivor, that is all, last episode broke me
Black Mirror dropped on Netflix this morning.
What I want to know is…when will the RTE bring back Celebrity Pigs ‘n’ Heels?… sorry meant…Celebrity Jigs ‘n’ Reels…
How about Wheeler Dealers ?
I never watched the English Dancing with the stars so I don’t know why I decided to watch the Irish one, however, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Another reason not to pay tv licence
RTE CRAP!!!!!!!!! NOT ONE ORIGINAL PROGRAM THAT WORTH LOOKING AT
BOYCOTT TV LICENCE
I wont be talking about them. Same crap on RTE. Just a different year.
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