Waterside Hospital

This bright new hospital was opened in 1991. We provide the highest standard of care for older continuing care patients in this facility.

Judy Houlahan heads up a committed staff team, who use every opportunity to introduce innovative ways of caring for continuing care patients.

Waterside Hospital has 3 wards, providing continuing care for older people, both male and female.

The philosophy of care in the Waterside Hospital includes:

Treating each patient as an individual person
Encouraging patients to make their own decisions
Promoting patients’ privacy and dignity
Actively involving relatives and friends in patients’ care

There is a full team of people working together to provide the care and attention you or your relative may require.

Rest Room

Waterside Hospital has its own hairdressing salon. Patients from each ward can visit the hairdresser on a weekly basis.

Roman Catholic: Father McCaughey• Church of Ireland: Canon McConachie
Presbyterian: Reverend Gray

Mass at 10.30 am each Sunday, held within Gransha Hospital grounds
Church of Ireland and Presbyterian services are held alternately each Sunday at 9.30 am within Gransha Hospital
Lay Ministers administer communion to Roman Catholics patients every Sunday

Services for all denominations are also held monthly on the wards. Communion services can be arranged with chaplains as appropriate. An inter-denominational service takes place 3 times per year.

Shop

Visiting Team Members

The chiropodist visits the hospital twice per month
The dentist visits the hospital on a regular basis and when required
The optician visits the hospital as required for each patient

Voluntary Organisations

St Vincent de Paul
Legion of Mary
Miss Kerr
Local Schools
Local Artists and Musicians

Ward Activities

Here in the Waterside Hospital we have an activity programme co-ordinated by the Activity Therapy Nurse. Programmes are designed to suit each individual’s needs and wishes.

We concentrate on past interests, lifestyle and experiences, combining physical movement, skill preservation and development, sensory awareness and general involvement. As example we provide:

24-hour orientation
Reminiscence Therapy
Dramatherapy
Art
Storytelling
Social Outings
Singalongs
Film shows
Concerts
Aromatherapy

An up-to-date information board is located in the main corridor, providing information on daily and forthcoming events within the ward and throughout the hospital. As these activities are incorporated into the patient’s day to day care, we welcome involvement or interest from relatives/carers.

Visiting

The hospital is open for visiting from 11.00 am – 8.00 pm daily. Visiting outside these hours can be organised with the ward sister/deputy. While flexible visiting is encouraged in the hospital, we would appreciate the co-operation of visitors on the ward and ask you to understand that for the patient’s dignity and privacy, there may be occasions when you may be asked to leave clinical areas.

The front doors are closed at 8.30 pm. To exit after this time, please contact nursing staff on the ward visited.

Enquiries by telephone from relatives or carers are encouraged. Ask for your named nurse or ward sister.

Meals

Breakfast:	8.00 am
Mid Morning Snack:	11.00 am
Lunch:	1.00 pm
Afternoon Tea:	3.00 pm
Evening Tea:	6.00 pm
Supper:	7.20 pm

Occasionally, patients are on special diets. Please check with ward staff re the suitability of any foods/drinks being brought into the ward.

For health and safety reasons, relatives are not permitted in the kitchen. Staff will be only too pleased to help if something is required in the kitchen.

A vending machine is situated in reception area of hospital and tea-making facilities are available for relatives of ill patients.