Bourn View Care Home

We are confident that our care homes are now some of the very safest places to live and work.

All of our staff have been trained in additional and heightened cleansing protocols and hygiene regimes, and these are being supported by a leading sanitisation system as part of our comprehensive infection controls. Testing regimes will continue for staff, residents and visitors.

We have re-aligned the resident in-house services to meet social distance guidance from the Government, for areas such as lounges and dining rooms, and for visiting entertainers and hair dressers; we are working hard to restore these services within the ‘new normal’ circumstances as soon as we can, when lockdown rules allow.

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

The sleek design of the building, with its stunning central curved roof, is quite distinctive, and the incorporation of floor-to-ceiling windows, together with doors that open out to the grounds make it light and sunny and very connected with the landscape.

An atrium is the focal point of each floor. Here there is a bistro cum café and a bar where residents, friends and families are encouraged to gather. There are four dining rooms and four intimate lounges, all furnished in a contemporary style with splashes of bold colour. The dining rooms lead out on to terraces, ideal spots for a relaxing aperitif before dinner or watching the world go by.

There is a separate memory care floor and a safe, enclosed rear garden. The gardens feature a gazebo, raised beds and potting shed.

Each spacious bedroom comes fully furnished, has a TV and telephone point, heating controls and an en-suite wet room. Many of the ground floor rooms enjoy the extra benefit of opening out on to the gardens. Residents are encouraged to personalise their rooms with their own mementoes and treasures as we fully recognise that being surrounded by familiar things can ease the transition from home to a home.

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.

Mealtimes are focal points of the day and we recognise the importance of making them well worth the wait and to be convivial occasions. We can cater for any special diets, and have ways of coaxing poor appetites along. Needless to say, we mark birthdays and anniversaries in time-honoured fashion and will be only too please if friends and families come along and join us.

Our acclaimed residents well-being programme is designed to keep all of us engaged and active. There is something for everyone at Bourn View, we believe that playing an active role in our local Bournville community is critical to the health of our community. Many of our residents enjoy strong affiliations with local groups and we are only too happy to support and nurture these connections.

Encouraged by our Well-being coordinators, our residents like to play a full part in the life of Bourn View retirement home. They proved keen to enter the Avery in Bloom competition this year, had a trip out to the garden centre to buy plants and have high hopes that their green fingered expertise will meet with recognition. Driving Miss Daisy has been a favourite of the cinema showings, along with Mamma Mia and Grease.

If the cinema seats prove too comfy, residents can show their moves in the daily Morning Moves keep fit sessions and I’m sure that the reminiscences sessions with vinyls on the record player, get them swaying along. 

We have our own minibus to take residents out on trips far and wide from our care home in Bournville. The world does not necessarily get smaller with age! Just think of somewhere you’d like to visit, and off we go.

Pets to be discussed with the home manager.

9th January 2020

12th December 2018