Inpatient Care
- To Control Symptoms relating to their illness such as pain and nausea
- For Respite Care to give families and carers the opportunity to have a break from nursing
- For End Stage Care: Some patients choose to spend their last days in the unit, being admitted during the very late stages of their illness
- To Rehabilitate patients who may have had a long stay in hospital to allow them to return home to their families if that is possible or another care provision when home is not an option
Our Inpatient Unit consists of ten ground floor spacious individual bedded rooms with en-suite facilities. All rooms are furnished to a high standard and it is our aim to create a homely atmosphere with comfortable seating, TV and stereo equipment and easy access to garden areas.
All patient areas have the reassurance of a nurse call system and the unit is operational 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year. Ths part of the hospice is an acute facility with the average length of stay at thirteen days. In an average month the in patient unit would care for between fifteen and twenty patients.
Patients in the in patient unit are cared for by our multi disciplinary team which includes Consultants in Palliative Medicine, Hospice Physicians, Specialist Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Dietician, Social Worker, Dental Hygienist, Physiotherapist and Complimentary Therapists.
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