Nursing home a byword for innovation

Nursing home a byword for creation By Catherine Shanahan Thursday, Feb 09, 2012It comes with a kind of mod-cons most would join forces with more with a family home than a community nursing unit, but afterwards creation is a byword for Corks newest residential caring facility. Ballincollig Community Nursing Unit, a 20.2m HSE build, has broken ground upon several fronts, not least a public/private proceed to running a facility, a first of a kind in a country. While a HSE is a registered use provider, a home is 100% managed by Mowlam Healthcare Ltd, an arrangement that came about when a HSE was incompetent to staff a facility due to a recruitment moratorium. Mowlam has a track record in private nursing home provision with fifteen nursing homes around a country. The Ballincollig unit, built upon a site of a former army barracks, will cater for 100 residents 80 long-stay as well as 20 respite when fully operational as well as will occupy 100 staff, up from a current 70. Officially opened at a weekend, it is already home to more than 60 residents, each of whom has a flat screen TV in their room which can be tuned to an on-site prayer room for those wishing to watch Mass. For a more energetic of a residents, a unit boasts a physiotherapy gym as well as occupational therapy suite as well as makes innovative use of games technology using Wii Fit to work with residents to improve balance, dexterity as well as well-being. The homes comprises four 25 bed units, each with 17 single en suite rooms, dual double en suite rooms as well as one four-bedded en suite room. All a residents rooms have views of a landscaped gardens. A web-based, electronic touch screen resident record is used to record a residents personal as well as clinical report as well as caring plans. According to a HSE, a system enables staff to brand trends in relation to a residents caring such as wound care, infection, falls as well as so on, as well as to afterwards reduce and/or eradicate any issues of concern. It has been opening upon a phased basis since Sept 2011, although a build was completed dual years earlier. The HSE is responsible for ensuring it complies with standards set by a Health Information as well as Quality Authority. Speaking at a central opening, Pat Healy, regional director of operations, HSE South, pronounced it would provide "a significantly improved level of access to peculiarity long-stay residential caring for comparison people in Cork city". Ballincollig CNU won a Best New Business Category in a Ballincollig Business Association Awards last Friday. a d v e r t i s e m e n t This appeared in a printed version of a Irish Examiner Thursday, Feb 09, 2012 Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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