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The Official Opening of Orwell Healthcare took place yesterday following a €15million investment. The redevelopment includes the construction of two new residential buildings, the refurbishment of the original house and the launch of a specialist Acquired Brain Injury Unit with neuro-rehabilitation programme, the first nursing home in South County Dublin to offer this service. Over 100 new care beds and 180 jobs have been created as part of the investment programme. The three divisions of Orwell Healthcare, Orwell Private, Orwell Home Care and Orwell Education, are centres of excellence in the provision of state-of-the-art specialist long and short-term residential care for people of all ages in an inviting community setting. The new facility was officially declared open by Minister Paul Kehoe. Both guests and residents enjoyed the event which was blessed with the most beautiful day, below are some memories from the day!

The flowers and plants in our new garden are benefiting from the rain and sunshine this week. The garden is starting to take shape, just in time for the summer!

Colour popping up everywhere at Orwell Healthcare today, Spring flowers and new wallpaper.

The Orwell Healthcare staff and residents were delighted to welcome winning captain Gavin Jones and the Leinster Schools Junior Cup to Orwell Healthcare this afternoon! Gavin Jones, son of Peter and Mary Jones was the winning captain of the Blackrock Junior Cup Team!

We are so proud of Gavin son of Peter & Mary Jones and captain of the Leinster Junior Cup winning team. Congratulations Blackrock!!!

Gavin lifts the Cup with a little bit of help from Mary, celebrating Blackrock’s 50th Leinster JCT win!

Following Blackrock College tradition Gavin is carried up the avenue before presenting the Leinster School’s Junior Cup to Fr. Cormac O’Brolchain.

Orwell Healthcare are delighted to announce the appointment of Senior Physiotherapist, Kostas Dedousis to its team.  Kostas has a Master of Science in Neurorehabilitation and a Degree in Physiotherapy.  He has been working in acquired brain injury and rehabilitation in Ireland since 2012.  Kostas has over 10 years experience in the area of neurorehabilitation including periods at Charing Cross Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital Paddington in London.

Orwell Healthcare opened its acquired brain injury unit in January 2016 and offers a comprehensive rehabilitation programme.  The unit is serviced by a multi-disciplinary team including occupational therapists, a speech and language therapist, psychologist and psychiatrist, physiotherapist with neurological experience and a team of nurses and care assistants with experience in caring for people with acquired brain injury.

Orwell Healthcare based on Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 is one of Ireland’s most respected healthcare providers, with an unrivalled reputation for the provision of care.  It is a family run business, founded in 1988, headed by Peter and Dr Mary Jones who have used their extensive experience in healthcare to develop the three divisions of Orwell Healthcare – Orwell Private, Orwell Home Care and Orwell Education as centres of excellence for the provision of care.

For further information please contact:

info@orwellhealthcare

tel: 01-4 999 000

www.orwellhealthcare

Spring is in the air in Orwell, a painting by one of our residents entitled ‘Daffodils’

It has been a very busy 12 months at Orwell Healthcare with the opening of The Elgin, Elgin Convalescence and our Raglan units,

We are delighted to be shortlisted for the Irish Healthcare Building Project of the Year ‘ at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards, the winner of which will be announced on the 11th of March 2016 at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.

Please see the full list of nominees here: http://irishhealthcarecentreawards.com/finalists/