Rossmore
We support your discharge to home by providing outstanding, compassionate care and rehabilitation in a safe, clean and purpose-built facility.
Here at Rossmore Community Rehabilitation Centre, we provide Discharge to Assess. We also have several beds for patients who are non-weightbearing (who can't stand without help) or who are waiting for a care package.
Discharge to Assess is a short-term assessment of your needs, provided after you have spent a period of time in hospital for an illness or injury.
We will help you to safely manage everyday activities so that you can return home, to your previous place of care, or start a new care placement within 10 days.
At the start of your stay, we will do some assessments. These will help the therapist involved in your rehabilitation set some realistic goals for you.
We will also create a care plan for you so that other people involved in your care such as nurses and healthcare assistants know about what you can do and encourage you to perform activities for yourself wherever possible. During your stay, your goals and progress will be reviewed regularly.
The professionals involved in your care will help work out what is needed for you to be discharged safely. This could include equipment, adaptations and/or referrals for support from other services.
If you need a little longer than 10 days to manage some of these goals, we will discuss the possibility of moving you to one of our intermediate care units. This may give you a little more time to reach your full potential.
The whole team at Rossmore will be involved in your discharge planning. Our Discharge Coordinator will coordinate your discharge and communicate with all the people involved in your care to ensure a smooth transition to your destination.
Non-weightbearing patients
If you can't bear your own weight on a limb after injury, you may not be able to go home straightaway. If this happens, we can support you with your rehabilitation at Rossmore. We support patients to improve to a level safe for discharge home; this could be before your weight bearing status is changed (if you are still not able to bear weight on that limb) with appropriate support, or it may be that you need to stay longer for more rehabilitation.
The whole team will work with you to make sure you are as independent as possible before you go home. This involves multidisciplinary assessment (from professionals in the team) and therapy intervention, like physiotherapy. When you can bear your weight, if you still need support to be independent you would be transferred to one of our other CHCP units.
About Rossmore
At Rossmore, we have sixty beds in total, comprising of:
- Eight en-suite rooms with accessible facilities
- Four bays, each containing four beds with shared accessible toilet facilities
- Six bays, each containing six beds with shared accessible bathroom facilities
Although you may be admitted to a single room on arrival to the unit, you may be asked to move into a shared bay as needed.
The Team
The team includes:
- Registered Manager
- Deputy Manager
- Care Staff
- Nurses
- Physiotherapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Medicines Management
- Medical (doctor) cover for non-weightbearing patients
- Local GP services
- Administrative Staff
- Social services
