Significant reductions in scheduled and elective care remain in place across the six hospitals in the University of Limerick group.
All hospitals continue to operate above capacity and staff remain on high alerts amid a surge of respiratory infections, which have not yet peaked.
The major internal incident declared at University Hospital Limerick on 2 January has been stood down.
The alert saw the group's acute hospital deal with unprecedented numbers of presentations and ambulances were directed to other hospitals because of congestion.
Day surgery at Ennis, Nenagh and St Johns Hospital in Limerick city has been cancelled this week as day beds are used to accommodate surge capacity for medical patients being transferred there.
The medical assessment units at Nenagh Hospital and at St Johns Hospital will now stay open seven days a week as a temporary measure to accept additional GP referrals through the weekend as the surge in respiratory infections remains.
Ennis medical assessment unit is open every day and can accept medically suitable patients by ambulance, instead of being brought directly to the emergency department in UHL.
A spokesperson for the University of Limerick Hospital Group said they expect the direct transport of non-acute patients by ambulance to the medical assessment unit at Ennis hospital to continue.
However, this new pathway and its success will have to be evaluated with doctors at the MAU as well as paramedics in the National Ambulance Service.
The group was responding to a statement earlier today by Clare Sinn Féin TD Violet Ann Wynne, that she had received assurances from UHL CEO Prof Collette Cowan that the transfer of patients to the Ennis MAU instead of directly to the ED in Limerick would continue for the long-term.
