bupa.co.ukThe new Heathbrook House nursing home in Bromsgrove, which cost £4 million to build, opens this week and demonstrates Bupa's commitment to extend capacity and improve standards in UK care homes.
Chairman of the local council, Councillor Janice Boswell, will unveil a plaque at the official opening event of the new home on Thursday 6 December, in the company of local residents, healthcare professionals and representatives from Bupa Care Homes, including Mark Elliot, regional director for central and west.
Bupa's Heathbrook House offers care to older people, and has undergone an extensive building programme including features such us under floor heating and en-suite facilities, while all bedrooms have flat-screen televisions with freeview channels and telephones, so that residents can make and receive personal calls from the comfort of their own bedrooms. The home also has attractively landscaped gardens and will have an open-door policy, so that residents' friends and family can visit at any time.
Laura Williams, a registered general nurse with over 20 years' experience, has taken up the post of home manager in the two-storey home designed specifically to meet the requirements of 45 older people with nursing care needs. Laura said: "I am really pleased to be part of a team providing care to frail older people in the area. "We're really keen to make the home part of the local community and we are planning a number of events in the new year."
Bupa Care Homes' Mark Elliot, regional director, central and west, said: "Careful consideration has been given to the needs of our residents which, in turn, have been matched with modern solutions. The aim was to make the home as comfortable as possible and to give residents as much independence as possible."