AUTHOR, broadcaster and presenter, Fred Dinenage, helped to open Bexhill’s newest care home today (Thursday) at a busy launch event.
The Collington Park Lodge home officially opened its 66-room care home, which boasts not only being able to give top-quality care, but also has the capability of being able to almost run ‘off-grid’.
The new building, located on Collington Lane East in Bexhill, houses entirely en-suite rooms, a residents’ library, tearoom, a hair salon and garden rooms. The home offers residential, dementia and respite care.
Fred, who has been on TV for almost 60 years, helped to cut the ribbon at the home and spoke to the visitors at the event about his career and reminisced about the times he met Dame Vera Lynn and Julie Andrews.
Chief Executive of Oyster Care Homes, Tim Buckley, told Bexhill News: “Every single one of us has worked in care for a very long time, I started as a carer. So, my values are very much around providing the very best quality, in terms of care.
“Lots of people think care is personal care, but ours is much broader. It’s a whole living experience. So, whether it’s trips out, whether it’s engaging with our residents, our residents want to be able to maximise and enjoy life and therefore our way of working is to make sure we can still do that.
“Even residents who are at the early stages of dementia, there’s still an awful lot that we can do to enable them to live well with dementia.
“All our managers are very experienced in the care sector and they have joined Oyster because they’ve recognised, through our values and inspirations, what we wanted to deliver.”
The care home incorporates a combination of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, a ground-source heating system, and a substantial battery storage solution. This integrated approach enables the facility to maintain operations even during periods of limited sunlight or grid outages.
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