The eight bed High Dependency Care Unit is located on Newlands House, and caters for Service Users who have sustained a catastrophic brain injury, with multiple and complex specialist nursing needs. Highly dependent service users who may have tracheostomies, require partial intermittent ventilation, have PEG feeding tubes for nutritional support and other medical needs can be cared for within this environment by specialist nursing staff and experienced care assistants. The high staff:service user ration within this unit enables this high level of care to be maintained.
Service Users are able to access the specialist services offered within our Brain Injury Services Division, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and clinical psychology services. Our experience shows that this type of highly dependent Service User can attain some benefit from Cognitive Rehabliltation Therapy and psychological intervention.
A controlled Multi-sensory Environment is avaliable to this Service User group. This allows participation in sessions designed to stimulate the senses of touch, hearing, sight and smell.
Admission to the High Dependency Care Unit is either via the Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre, if the Service User shows no signs of further rehabilitation potential where complex nursing intervention and need exist, or as in the majority of cases the Service User would be admitted directly from a hospital environment, where an admission for assessment on the ARC would prove unsuitable and unnecessary.
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