Mullinure Hospital

Mullinure Hospital provides an assessment and rehabilitation service for older people with disabilities who live in the area. It does not provide long-term or continuing care.

Our aim is to help our patients to become as independent as possible so they can go back home. If this is not possible, the patient may leave us to go into residential or nursing home care.

To help you be independent you will wear your own clothes, including outdoor shoes, rather than a hospital gown or night-wear.

Hospital staff

A range of health-care staff will be involved in caring for you during your stay in hospital. Members of the team have different roles in your care:

the medical staff will assess you regularly
the nursing team is the link between all the health-care staff, providing high-quality care for you 24 hours a day
the physiotherapist will assess your strength, balance and walking and will plan appropriate exercises
the occupational therapist will assess you and help you to carry out day-to-day activities safely and independently. This may include a visit to your home
the social worker will assess your care needs. They can give advice, emotional and practical support to you and your carers. They can also help you plan for your future care
the dietician will assess if your diet affects your condition, and will give you advice on what to eat and drink
the speech and language therapist will assess you if you have problems with talking or swallowing

Going home

We will start to plan for you going home again as soon as you come into hospital. While you are here, we will discuss your options with you and your family or carers.

Depending on your progress and how independent you are, you will have one of the following options:

going home with no outside help needed
going home with social services or nursing support
going home, but with more treatment: for example with the intermediate care scheme or visiting hospital as a day patient
going home with intensive support
moving into residential or nursing home care.

If you are not able to go back to your own home, staff will work with you and your family or carers to choose a suitable available residential or nursing home. If the home you want does not have a vacancy when you are due to leave us, you will have to move somewhere else that is suitable until there is a vacancy. You would not be able to wait in hospital if there is somewhere suitable for you to stay in the meantime.

Chaplains

The hospital chaplains can visit you in the ward. If you want to contact your own minister, priest or religious leader, a member of staff will do this for you.

Volunteers

Volunteers, approved by the Trust, provide activities for patients: for example music, flower arranging or other crafts.

Suggestions, compliments & complaints

Your views on the care we provide are important to us. If you want to make a suggestion, comment, compliment or complaint you can use the leaflet that is on the ward or talk to the ward manager. We have a policy for dealing promptly with complaints.

Mullinure Hospital

Assessment & Rehabilitation Units

Information for Patients and Relatives

About the hospital

Hospital staff

Going home

Chaplains

Volunteers

Suggestions, compliments & complaints

Smoking

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