The Inpatient Unit has the ability and facilities to admit and care for eight patients, with each individual room having an en-suite and outdoor patio area. Patients may require to be admitted to our unit for various reasons, for example;
While you are at ACCORD, we will try to help you achieve the things that matter most to you at the end of your life.
Inpatient care is often most associated with the advanced stage of illness, some patients are able to return home once we’ve helped them get their symptoms under control.
Sometimes people come in so we can help manage pain or control nausea, and a short-term stay often gives improved symptom control and also offers much-needed support to a patient’s family and carers.
Patients are asked to bring any current medications with them. Patients can also choose to bring day clothes, nightwear, slippers and toiletries with them.
You may want to wear everyday indoor clothes while in the unit. We would encourage families to take any laundry home; however, if this is not possible facilities are available to launder clothes in the Hospice. There is a wardrobe to store all your clothes and belongings.
We ask that all your valuables are sent home for safe keeping. The Hospice cannot take responsibility for any valuables you choose to keep in your possession.
Free parking is available at the Hospice, we just ask that you be respectful of disabled parking bays and the entrance to the Inpatient Unit to allow ambulance access. The Hospice cannot accept responsibility for cars and their contents at any time.
ACCORD Hospice has a NO SMOKING policy for patients, visitors and staff within the Hospice and the immediate external grounds. This includes all tobacco based products and the use of E-Cigarettes. If patients require to smoke we have a designated smoking shelter outside of the Inpatient Unit - for patients ONLY. We do not offer a facility for visitors to smoke within the Hospice grounds.
These are the meal times which are available when staying at ACCORD. Any foods brought into the ward that require to be refrigerated will be labelled with the patient's name and date. Please note that we can only refrigerate food items for 24 hours regardless of use by or sell by dates due to food safety standards. After this period food will be disposed of.
Spirituality is whatever gives you meaning in life, what is important to you right at that minute. It may be faith or religion that comes to mind, but not necessarily at the top of the list; thoughts of family; health or work may be your priority at that moment and will change regularly. Spiritual is a word that will mean different things to different people. For some, spiritual means religious, for others it means something much wider. Often it is a mix of both and depends on the person.
ACCORD recognises the diversity of people and their experience of spirituality. We will seek to be inclusive, to provide support whenever possible regardless of peoples’ ethnicity, religion, culture, disability, sexuality or gender identity. Spirituality in essence is unique to individuals; in providing spiritual support we recognise the need to assess each person, their story and their context without prejudice, creating an atmosphere where people feel able to seek and engage with the support they may need.
We also recognises the importance of the spiritual aspect of peoples’ lives. For most ACCORD staff, attention to spiritual need is intuitive and much excellent spiritual care has been delivered without those giving or receiving it necessarily recognising it as such.
Our aim is to encourage and enhance what is already happening and to be clear to all staff how spiritual care is to be regarded and addressed within the organisation. We do that with a comprehensive Spiritual Care policy and guidance supported by staff training, sensitive environments, spiritual care as a core part of assessment and by encouraging staff to seek solutions to meet peoples spiritual needs.
We work in partnership with other faith and spiritual organisations to ensure support is available from the most appropriate people. Details of those partnerships is available for those who need more information.
Books of faith are accessible to all and are kept in the patient lounge.
Here you will find some general questions our nursing team are asked regularly about staying at ACCORD
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