The Orchard Nursing Home Wins Top Award
Vicky Ashby of The Orchard Nursing Home, St Albans, is celebrating after winning a Caring Homes Group ‘Recognition Award’.
Vicky won the Fulfilling Lives Award, sponsored by Orchard Interiors Ltd, for launching a range of new activities to the home such as card making, knitting and reminiscence groups; she has also built strong links with the local community, resulting in fun weekly visits from a mother and toddler group.
The award was announced by one of the original professional dancers on Strictly Come Dancing; producer and entertainer, Brendan Cole, at a gala ceremony on 14th June at the Heythrop Park Resort, Oxfordshire.
Caring Homes Group is celebrating its 25th year in the care sector and was founded in 1994 by Helena Jeffery and her son Paul, on an aspiration to provide a caring home for each resident and a desire to provide everyone with the opportunity to continue to live life to the full through better quality, care and support. The company is still family-run and has proudly been the winner of many industry and regional awards over the years.
Paul Jeffery, CEO, Caring Homes Group, adds: “It is very important that we celebrate success, not only of our finalists but also the successes achieved every day by thousands of our colleagues caring for some of the most vulnerable in our society. I am extremely proud that in our 25th year we are all colleagues, a team, a family.”
The Orchard Nursing Home in St Albans, is an attractive purpose-built home providing the highest level of residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for up to 63 elderly residents.
If you would like to find out more about life at The Orchard Nursing Home please contact us on 0808 223 5544 or email [email protected].
