Enter and View: Beanlands Nursing Home, Glusburn

Findings:

• Beanlands is a nursing and care home housed in what was the former residence of the Hartley family - a prominent local mill owner.
• It is an imposing, elevated, three storey building set in extensive, well stocked and maintained grounds.
• The Home is clean and welcoming with all rooms viewed, being of variable but acceptable proportions.
• There are no en-suite facilities to any of the 37 single and 4 double bedrooms.
• The Home specializes in Palliative and End of Life Care and has been accredited with the Gold Standard Framework, evidencing its high standards in the care of patients nearing the end of their life.
• All bedrooms are equipped with an emergency call system, which can only be cancelled by staff attending the room. This system is however not appropriate for residents with more advanced stages of dementia, and thus staff need to be particularly vigilant, regularly checking corridors and residents bedrooms, particularly at night.
• The Activities Coordinator shares her time between Beanlands and Currergate.
• There is no specific facility for family members to stay overnight, however where a resident is near the end of their life, recliner chairs are available for relatives to use.
• This Home, the residents and staff appear well integrated into the local community, who volunteer, visit and help in the Home on a regular basis.