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From our local online paper -
A new £8m dedicated stroke and general rehabilitation unit in Norwich will open its doors to patients in less than a month, it has been announced.
The Mulberry Rehabilitation Unit, which will see hundreds of patients from NHS Norfolk's area get better services to help them recover from strokes, is being built on the Norwich Community Hospital site in Bowthorpe Road.
It will also offer care for patients who are well enough to move on from an acute hospital bed, but not yet recovered enough to return home, which will ease bed blocking at the under pressure Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
The keys were officially handed over yesterday to mark the end of the construction phase.
Dr Ian Mack, chair of NHS Norfolk's clinical executive and clinical lead on stroke, said: “This new, purpose-built facility demonstrates a major investment in the care and welfare of our patients, and it is part of our commitment to aid in the recovery of those patients after operations or acute hospital stays, and to reduce the risk of disabilities from traumatic events such as stroke.
“NHS Norfolk made a promise to deliver a dedicated stroke unit for our patients and even better general rehabilitation facilities. Thanks to the joint working between a number of teams, from the health service providers to estates, we are delighted to say the first patients will be admitted from January 6 into a fantastic new facility.”
The unit will house the 24-bedded Beech Stroke Rehabilitation Ward and the 24-bedded Alder General Rehabilitation Ward.
Patients primarily from the central Norfolk area - encompassing Norwich, South and North Norfolk - will be admitted to the stroke rehab ward.
Patients in the west of the county will continue to be referred to rehabilitation units and services already established at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in King's Lynn.
Funded by NHS Norfolk (NHSN), the unit is the single biggest investment in any capital scheme since the primary care trust was established in 2006.
The Beech ward will create 50 new NHS jobs, while the new beds on the Alder ward will replace a similar number at the Henderson Ward based at the Julian Hospital site in Bowthorpe Road.
Beds will be kept open on Henderson for the winter months to ease winter pressures on acute and intermediate care beds.
Staff will move to the new ward from Henderson in a phased approach, to ensure continuity of healthcare on both wards. Both wards will be fully staffed in the interim.
With o.h. having already had a bleed on the brain and his father having had several t.ia.s this news is reassuring, the more specialist units the better as long as the funding continues and the staffing levels can be maintained.
Lizx
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There s a new way of dealing with stroke rehabilitation being tried in Sussex I believe. Don't know much about it but speech therapist was taking special notes on my dad to contribute to the meeting about it because he was the one who had made the most progress.
No doubt all Sussex stroke victims will suffer bullying and neglect and have to look after themselves eventually.Just like him!
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You will be renowned Sharron lol and the Stroke bully! lol
I actually think you have done a wonderful job and give your father's life back to him.
Well done!
Lizxx
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