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The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home is very proud of the level of professional care we administer to our residents. We have at our core the values of Privacy, Dignity, Rights, Independence, Choice and Fulfillment. We also value our stance as providing a home-from-home environment to help avoid institutionalisation and to keep residents focused on the future.
There are many different types of nursing care undertaken throughout the hospital that are reflective of the disabilities suffered by our residents. We have residents with motor neurone diseases, central nervous system diseases, those with Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI) and those with spinal injuries. Not only is each type of illness different but each individual is different too.
Where possible we try to emphasis rehabilitation and getting residents to a point where they are able to cope living in the wider community and on their own. When he first came here one of our residents was not able to walk or do very much at all for himself. With careful supervision he gradually began to gain some mobility again and progressed through walking with a frame to walking with two sticks then one and now completely unaided.
Behind stories like these is a great deal of hard work and it is vital that we continue to grow our fundraising capacity in order to counteract the ever increasing cost of health care today. |
