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St Catherine’s Hospice

Donate online"Changing the Context of Care"

Phase one of a major building project is now under way.  Phase two has now been approved and phase three will not begin until funding is secured for it.  When complete the main changes will be to:-

  • Increase the number of high quality single rooms with en-suite facilities from 10% to 60%
  • Create an entirely new option of 6 family rooms for older people to share with their loved one
  • Create a choice for in-patients of shared, single or family rooms.
  • Open a special discreet ambulance entrance for incoming patients with an adjacent nursing station. (Patients arriving by ambulance currently pass through the reception area.)
  • Increase the number of beds from 19 to 20
  • Build a new reception area leading to the Orangery cafe and shop.  It will be specially designed to be refreshing, bright and optimistic and will include a new information point using modern technology and traditional leaflets.  Receptionists will be close at hand to help.
  • Construct an attractive traditional Orangery Cafe as a rejuvenating focal point where families and friends can meet together away from the bedside.  It will be the hub of the Hospice.
  • Open the Orangery to the public in appropriate ways to enable life within the hospice to reflect life where patients come from.  We will encourage young people to serve in the cafe, sell cakes baked by local people (following recognised hygiene regulations) and use Fair Trade products in response to the needs of wider communities.
  • Build two new quiet rooms for private conversations and time away from the bedside.
  • Build a new room for children or grandchildren that is enjoyable but doesn't disturb others.
  • Rebuild, enlarge and upgrade the kitchen to enable a wider range of meals to be produced that can cater for all community and cultural nutritional needs including, for example Halal or Kosher 'menus'.
  • Complete minor aspects to our splendidly developed gardens that so many older people already delight in.
  • Re-shape our parking facilities to improve access to the hospice especially for those who have difficulty walking or who use wheelchairs.
  • Increase the number of consultation rooms and waiting areas for community, outpatient and day-care appointments to transform the range of services and improve privacy/dignity.
  • Build an improved lift to assist day care and outpatients, especially older people.
  • Use green technology in new energy-efficient flexible, responsive heating systems, stack-flow ventilation and high tech insulation to reduce emissions.
  • Provide thoughtful touches such as 'old and new' images of local areas that older people will appreciate, 'pleasant corridors', signs that are easily understood in appropriate languages and furniture for carers so they 'don't have to live out of a plastic bag'.
  • Improve security for patients, families, staff and volunteers.
  • Finally, Changing the Context of Care is a proposal that enhances St Catherine's tradition of well-thought-out refurbishment that also protects the delightful character and ambience of our beautiful 18th Century building.  This lovely house was once lived in as someone's own home and in many ways the place still feels like that.  It enjoys an indefinable quality that creates a unique atmosphere that countless patients, families, carers and visiting colleagues comment upon.  It is partly because St Catherine's values this 'inherited' family atmosphere so much, that it is loved, and appreciated by local people to the extent that our donors donate far more per head than is the average across the country.

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