In memory of Pat Knight

Karen was very taken with Alice!

Today we gathered in the lounge after variety hour for afternoon tea, complete with fruit cake, mini pastries and fancy cakes.  We were joined by Pat Knights family and Alice the puppy !  It was a lovely afternoon and good to remember her- she loved afternoon tea and after she passed away the family donated funds for us to purchase a tea  trolley , vintage china and the trappings to make afternoon tea a special event.  We are carrying on the tradition and I'm sure she would have approved.

Christmas Fayre

These are addictive ...

Active minds - art painting packs - love them!  Even our volunteer Christiane joined in this afternoon !

Magic painting

Love these new painting packs by active minds - Jean here trying one out!  They are so relaxing to do.....

Today...

Guess what we got up to....

Happy birthday Sheila, Diana and Anne

Quite a day for the birthday girls today !  Anne had lots of visitors, lunch in the library and presents flowers and cards.  

Sheila and Di had to work this morning and Diane in the laundry made sure everyone knew it was their birthday by making sure they wore big pink birthday badges !!  They joined in with the choir this afternoon and the residents all sang a rousing 'happy birthday ' ... Good job they've had lots of practise with their singing ...

Autumn splendour at Burrswood

National Award for Mount Ephraim House

Mount Ephraim House........
Winners of Residential Care Provider at the LaingBuisson Independent Healthcare Awards 2014
We would like to thank all of our fantastic team for making MEH a vibrant, homely  and happy place to live and work.
Well Done Everybody

KC

shocking news!!!!

 we were a bit shocked to read there is another care home like MEH.... could it be true??? !!!  

Jan Millward reports on a SHOCKING expose of life in a care home in rural Dorset!

A member of staff has exposed what it is like to be a resident in Care home in Dorset...... in a series of reports which may SHOCK!!!!! and change peoples pe...rceptions....

Several reports of staff showing extreme kindness and care have been leaked out by an unnamed member of staff....

Reports of residents dancing the conga in the corridor have yet to be confirmed....

.... but our insider says this is a regular occurrence, and staff actively join in with the laughing and singing....

During the summer, residents were spotted being taken out into the garden where they were seen picking and smelling roses and then having tea and cake....

One group of residents were taken on a mini bus to Weymouth and were seen eating fish and chips on the beach....

Our mole suggests that staff accompany them on regular trips and actively encourage merriment!!!!!!

This doesn’t end there. Over the last year the local community have also been involved with many charity events and there have been signs of HAPPINESS AND ENJOYMENT ALL SUMMER.....

Donkeys and birds of prey as well as a python have all visited the home and the retired beach donkey was even encouraged into individual’s rooms.....

Management are fully aware of the situation and they even arranged for a 90 plus year old lady to go first class to an award gala earlier this year....

The lady in question has failed to stop talking about the event ever since!

Several staff have had to face a panel of judges recently as they were nominated to represent the South West region for the Great British care awards.....

If they continue to behave as they do, they will be asked to attend interviews in London for the national finals...

...One memorable afternoon a member of staff was seen to switch off the Jeremy Kyle show which had been accidentally left on and take the resident out for tea and cake.

Another occurrence was when a member of staff stayed with a dying resident for 2 hours after her shift had ended so that she wasn’t alone...

. She was spotted holding the residents hand, giving mouth care and talking gently to her....

This type of care which goes above and beyond expectations seems to be rife in the care industry and as yet has not received much exposure...

... Thousands of care homes up and down the country are subjecting their residents to similar situations.

The public need to be made aware of what really happens in the majority of care homes and it is about time these homes stood up and were counted....

John Baker RN (Clinical Nurse Specialist in Dementia Care) after finding this news report on the Web is reported to have said. .... "I am in total shock! This situation needs to be highlighted"

He continues. ."I will be surprised if this is an issolated case. ... I think that if you scratched below the surface you will find the that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ...

.... I suspect that there are other staff that care about the people in their care!! and I suspect that there may be some very, very nice homes out there....

Karen, age 49 and a relative of a person with dementia, said, " The present and past govements have done all they can to stop this type of thing happening in care homes. .. I am in total shock. .. you would think that government underfunding and stigmatising care home staff would put a stop to this type of thing. ... and yet good care still seems to happen in care homes. .."

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Eyes down for a full house...

Patty Philip Marie Marise Christine and Joan joined in with bingo today and won lots of prizes between them !   The other residents were either receiving visitors or enjoying the music supplied by regular Friday pianist, Derek .... Later Christiane was joined for the weekly quiz by Eileen and phyl, Marie and patty ... They are still going strong!

Heavy rain showers stopped any chance of a walk on the common for Jean and Anne - such a shame...

Hot off the press....

Just thought I would share with you that MEH was very fortunate and proud to win the Laing & Buisson Award for Residential Care Provider last night at the Lancaster Hotel London

 

Kind regards

 

Karen Cooper

Home Manager

 

Greensleeves Homes Trust

 

For details of our award-winning homes, please click below...

http://www.greensleeves.org.uk/external-awards

 

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The winner for residential home care provider is....Mount  Ephraim house,

Greensleeves Homes Trust !

Lovely crafty day......

All go Friday...

Pam arrived with Thomas the PAT dog and went to visit all the residents... Some on the garden, some in the lounge and some at knit and natter! Peggy was doing her artwork and pam stopped to have a drink with her.  The painters are still here - got as far as the annexe corridors today- a lovely shade of green (it's taken a bit if getting used to after the dull cream walls) and Nathan was up for having his photo taken!  The garden is looking glorious in its autumn colours, especially the Virginia creeper ...

Greetings from paddock wood...

We arranged a trip to our favourite department store, Barsley's yesterday... 

Happy birthday Marie

Marie celebrated her birthday today - first  thing being taken out by her family and later celebrating with her friends at meh. 

Many happy returns Marie!

The gardeners !

Anne and Jean decide to tackle the raised beds today and do a bit of deadheading.  

The finished arrangements...

Busy bees....!

 Thursday is always a busy day at meh - charity is here to do everyone's hair, jane arrives for computer fun, Jon McDevitt is playing the guitar and then nadia arrives for the weekly quiz...

Meanwhile Anne and Jean are arranging yet more flowers and Joan and Peggy are being creative with their art books.. 

I noticed Gordon busy with his financials on my way to the dining room and saw dear Marise under the dryer reading a magazine ... The weather is still so lovely that pat is sitting outside this afternoon reading the paper. 

Jenny and Roy are back....

...for creative pursuits in the games room today - they were joined by iris, Marie, patty, Mary and Marise - Peggy and Pat stayed for a while and enjoyed Jenny's homemade cake and a cup of tea!  Time to be thinking about making things for the Christmas fayre....

Watching the dog training !

Anne and Jean are engrossed in the dog training going on today... One man and his three dogs ..... We came out to collect cookers and pine cones but have got waylaid!

Early morning creativity!

While the others read and listened to Bill Bryson in the library, the more creative amongst us were busy in the games room with paint and pens....listening to dean martin & co!!

Here we are bexhill seafront ...

http://youtu.be/bH13eUiDhmo

we were sitting outside the sovereign light café made famous by Keane (link above)
it was a perfect day, warm, calm sea, peaceful and the residents had a lovely time... lunch at the de la war pavilion, ice cream on the seafront and back in time for supper at MEH

we met some lovely people and their dogs along the front for a chat, collected a few pebbles to paint next week as a reminder of the day.......

Winning awards!

Our training day lunch

And very nice it was too!  We are now all edenized so watch out residents!!

Another busy day at meh

Eden training today

Some of the team are on a training course today on the benefits of Eden alternative in care homes... Debbie has won the first prize of the day for decorating her name badge ! She certainly thinks outside the box...

Staff behaving badly!!

All fun in the office today ...with katerina and nikita