Woodbridge care home awarded Platinum status for End of Life Care
Grove Court, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, completes Gold Standard re-accreditation, and is awarded highest status for all-round excellence in End of Life care
Grove Court near Woodbridge, Suffolk, part of the Elizabeth Finn Homes group, has just completed their re-accreditation with the National Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Centre in End of Life Care, and as a result of their continued excellent performance, have been awarded the prestigious Platinum status, which is held by only a handful of care homes in the UK.
To qualify for accreditation, care homes must have undertaken the full GSF training programme over 9 months, embedded this into their homes for at least 6 months and then undertaken a rigorous accreditation process ‘Going for Gold’.
The accreditation process includes assessment against 20 clear standards of best practice and a Quality Assessment Visit to review the integration of the processes into everyday practice.
To be recognised as a beacon (the highest level), a home must show innovative and established good practice across at least 12 of the standards. Grove Court achieved a pass in every single category, and was marked as Excellent in six of them.
GSF wanted to celebrate the sustained excellent practice of care homes that have embedded GSF in their core working practices. In acknowledgment of this, homes that achieve re-accreditation will now be known as GSF Platinum homes.
An extract from the report reads:
“It was a pleasure to observe the interactions between different members of staff and residents and their families, lovely relationships, compassion evident as well as a ‘lot of laughs’.
The ethos of the home is about person-centred care and that was obvious throughout. The staff are very proud of what they do.
Overall Excellent.”
Helen Jones, General Manager of Grove Court comments:
“We are delighted that the consistent hard work, caring and dedication of all the staff at Grove Court has been recognised with our Platinum award. We are committed to raising the standard of End of Life care throughout the Suffolk area by working with the local hospice education group and through my chairmanship of the Residential and Care Homes group which works at a strategic level to improve standards across the sector.
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Liz Clements, Elizabeth Finn Homes’ Palliative Care Lead comments:
“Across the entire portfolio of ten properties, Elizabeth Finn Homes has always sought to fully embrace excellence in End of Life Care. Along with dedicated Group resource, each of our General Managers and staff are constantly seeking to maintain very high standards, this achievement at Grove Court fully evidences this.”
