New opening
Haven Café are indeed every bit as delicious as they look; once word gets around Great Wyrley, the locals will no-doubt be beating a path to the café’s doors! Suitably refreshed, Soni kindly gives me a tour of Wyrley Rose. As we walk around the home, I am struck by how, despite it being one of the largest care homes I have visited to date, the home nonetheless feels welcoming and in no way impersonal or institutional. The wide corridors are tastefully decorated, with areas distinguished via differing colours, artworks, and other details. Upstairs, on the first floor (which will be used for dementia care), more muted colours are used, while bedroom doors have been painted various differing shades in order to aid wayfinding. Numerous activity stations can also be found on this floor, providing gentle, reminiscence-enhancing activities for residents living with dementia to experience – such as an area for trying on
different hats. As well as the aforementioned hair
salon, Wyrley Rose also boasts a very well appointed gym, a library, a plush cinema with a popcorn machine and comfy seating, a craft room, a private dining room where residents can celebrate birthdays and other significant occasions with family and loved ones, and even Wyrley Rose’s very own ‘pub’ – The Pit Pony. Bedrooms are spacious and decorated to a high spec, with en suite wet room bathrooms as standard. Some ground floor rooms have doors opening out onto the home’s patios and gardens. On the day of my visit, the lawns were being re-laid as the original turfing did not meet with Macc Care’s rigorous high standards – a great demonstration of the provider’s attention to detail.
There are two resident lounges on each floor, each named after a local area – again
tying Wyrley Rose to local geography and community – and each featuring an oven and other cooking facilities, should residents wish to prepare their own snacks or meals. Most likely, however, they will opt to enjoy Wyrley Rose’s in-house catering, or a visit to the Haven Café, which, while of course still a part of Macc Care’s offering at Wyrley Rose, is run independently of the home’s main catering services.
A bright and sustainable future Wyrley Rose boasts impressive environmental credentials. The home boasts an EPC A rating – the highest available, signifying ‘a property with exceptional energy efficiency, resulting in lower energy consumption and running costs’ – and Macc Care tells me that it is working towards BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) certification for the home, based upon Wyrley Rose’s use of, solar panelling, air source heat pumps (which have resulted in minimal gas usage on site), bike and electric scooter storage for staff and visitors, EV charging, and full waste management compliance incorporating dry mixed/cardboard/ food segregation. With sustainability an increasingly important factor for older people and their families when choosing a care home, this impressive showing will no doubt work very much in Wyrley Rose’s favour.
I came away from Wyrley Rose with
a very strong sense of a team dedicated both to the welfare and wellbeing of their residents and also strongly committed to the local area. As resident numbers grow, I have no doubt that Wyrley Rose will continue to play an ever-greater part in the vibrant Great Wyrley community.
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