We were lucky enough to have another visit from a young group of school musicians last week. This time we enjoyed a concert by a violin group from St Nicholas’ School in Church Crookham. They generously came to play for us at the start of their school holiday and told the Christmas story in readings and ...
Category: Christmas
A group of musicians from the Robert May School in Odiham, came last week to entertain the residents. A competent band of young ukulele players, they were helped along by an excellent vocalist who sang first of all, some modern songs and folk music. They finished with a set of Christmas songs which the old ...
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Our fabulous new nursing and dementia home, Hill House, was officially opened on Saturday 10th September by the Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP. Over 250 guests and residents joined the celebrations making the day a huge success. Visitors were delighted to see the facilities and many mentioned the attention to detail given to both external and internal ...
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We are delighted to announce that we have won EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR in the recent INSPIRE11 BUSINESS AWARDS. These awards are for companies that are recognised as leaders of innovation in the Hampshire area. We beat stiff opposition including a global communications company that has its own university in China with headquarters in Basingstoke! Woodlands & ...
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Our ethos of creating a home from home environment for our residents, carries forward to include the new home as well. Its about putting a tremendous amount of research into all our choices and has meant not taking the easy option which often can lead to a more expensive choice. However, we have only one chance to ...
Category: Developing a new approach to care, Latest News
HILL HOUSE STAFF VACANCIES With the opening of our new nursing and dementia home only three months away, we have started our recruitment campaign for new staff with vigour. The new home has 21 dementia beds, a dementia Day Care Centre, 7 palliative care beds and 28 nursing beds. We are recruiting staff across the board and at ...
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ACHIEVER OF THE MONTH AWARD We aim to deliver the highest quality care and service to our residents and their families, but we never underestimate the hard work and dedication of our staff and believe it should be acknowledged and rewarded. The criteria for each award is set by the winner of the previous month’s award and ...
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November 2011 With the opening of the new home taking everyone's attention, we've had a bit of a pause on the staff awards while everything settles down. We were therefore doubly delighted that SAHLEE VILLALOBOS, one of our nurses at Hill House , was chosen this month. Staff and residents had commented on her commitment and dedication to ...
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CONGRATULATIONS GIRLS! We are very proud that two more of our members of staff have attained their NVQ4 qualification in Health & Social Care which is currently rated at Diploma level. CLAIRE HAMMENTS & DEB CHOULARTON, along with Alison and their Manager Teresa, went along to the Graduation ceremony at Guildford Colledge on Friday 12th November. They looked very smart in ...
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We have recently adopted four cats from the Cats Protection Home at Haslemere - two for each home. So let us introduce you to our new feline friends! COCO, who has just celebrated her second birthday, is a beautiful chocolate Persian who has come to live at Woodlands. She needs constant grooming to stay as gorgeous ...
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