Pemberley House Care Home

Avery Healthcare has always made the health and safety of our residents and staff a priority, and the Covid-19 pandemic has required us to raise our exacting standards to even higher levels. That is why we are taking the innovative step to introduce a cleaning system into our care homes that is already proven to kill 99.9% of viruses, including MRSA, e-Coli, norovirus and the SARS virus (which is similar to Cov-2, which causes Covid-19).

Avery is now leading in the care sector with the testing of an established cleaning system that refreshes and sanitises a bedroom in less than an hour, with a larger capacity variant addressing communal areas. Keeping both areas clean in this way will be an effective method in how Avery care homes manage their environments, to keep them as virus and bacteria-free as possible.

All Avery homes are now equipped with Topaz Machines ready for when we can allow visiting into the homes. The system hosts two units, one larger which dispenses hand sanitiser to visitors upon arrival and exit; it also provides an important messaging display screen to advise visitors of the latest news, and the other, a smaller screen, which operates as a thermal checker so that we can support temperature checks of those entering the building. Yet another fantastic piece of technology that provides relatives with safer, more efficient visits with their loved ones.

As we’ve learned during this pandemic, we are all in this together. We want our residents, staff, and their respective families to know that when they are in an Avery care home, that it is one of the safest and cleanest places to be. We also want relatives to be confident that their loved ones are being cared for in the best possible way, and for anyone in the position of placing a loved one in to care, to have the peace of mind that an Avery home will be a clean and safe haven.

Infection control and the safety of both residents and staff often requires quarantine measures and the isolation of care home residents. To test, monitor and allow residents to communicate with relatives, the prevalence of room-level connectivity within the home is becoming increasingly relevant.

Wireless Internet access (WiFi)

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”)

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Telephone for external calling

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Each floor of the home has its own small-scale lounges and dining rooms. The ground floor café is a popular meeting area, especially on coffee mornings.

We encourage our residents to make their bedrooms, all of which come with en-suite wet rooms, TV and telephone points as personal as they would like them to be and to enjoy having familiar and favourite things around them.

We believe that your later years should be as enriching as any other, and that being cared for shouldn’t mean that your quality of living is compromised, whatever your age, whatever your condition. The design of our homes and our carefully selected staff, combined with our diligent approach to each and every resident, affords them the opportunity to flourish, make new friends, maintain contact with their local communities and live a life of possibility.

All our food is cooked on the premises and offers good nutrition and variety, although we always like some good old fish and chips on a Friday and roast dinners on a Sunday. All special diets can be taken care of and healthy snacks, cakes and biscuits are always on offer throughout the day if a top-up is needed.

Residents enjoy armchair exercises, the arts and crafts club, sewing, growing herbs and vegetables in the raised beds and watching all the birds on the bird feeders. The garden is a sun trap and a lovely place for a morning coffee or afternoon tea and having a good old chinwag. We have our own minibus which finds its way to the local Basingstoke and Hampshire sites of interest, the shops or the local pub for lunch. We work up an appetite which serves us well when meal times come around.

Pets to be discussed with the home manager.

19th September 2017