£10m neurological care centre in Peterborough opens doors to first residents

PJ Care Ltd’s new Neurological Care Centre in Peterborough, Eagle Wood, welcomed its first residents last week.

Providing 107 specialist care beds in four purpose designed units, the centre is built around a therapy centre providing hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy to the complex’s residents and the wider community.

The care centre will cater for all long term neurological conditions, neurological rehabilitation, frontal temporal dementias and high dependency complex care.

Neil Russell, operations and development director, said: “We are delighted to welcome our first residents to Eagle Wood. We are very proud of our new care centre and the services it offers which we believe are setting new standards in the industry.

“Every detail has been considered, from the 360 degree hoist in the hydro-pool allowing ease of access, to the extra-large rooms and doorways to allow residents restricted to beds to still have private bathrooms, to the layout of the building to ensure no long gloomy corridors but open social spaces with bedrooms positioned around them.

"The site has taken just over eighteen months to build with an exciting discovery of ancient Roman artefacts and a stone-lined well in the grounds. To celebrate this fact there is a specially commissioned glazed atrium to house the Roman artefacts found on-site.”

The building has extra-large bedrooms in clusters around open communal spaces, all connected by wide corridors. It is divided into four separate self-contained units that will provide four distinct care models catering for different aspects of neurological nursing needs ranging from slow stream rehabilitation, through maintenance and critical care to full palliative care.

The four units are sited around a coffee shop and an exciting roof garden that ensures level access to the outside Beneath the roof garden is the therapy centre consisting of a hydrotherapy pool, a physiotherapy gym and an occupational therapy kitchen. These facilities will be available to the local community, as well as the residents of Eagle Wood.

The first Unit is now open with 25 beds available.

Photo: Sally Facer and her husband and first resident Harry Facer with general manager John Huntley