title: Assessment unit meets Trust ambitions.
abstract: The quality of the care environment within a new 16-bedded modular-built ward, the Gilwern Assessment Unit, at Hereford County Hopsital, has won widespread praise from the clinicians and nurses staffing it--many of whom were recruited specially to work in it. The impressive new single-storey assessment unit for frail, older patients--which admitted its first patients just before Christmas--is formed from 14 separate modules erected offsite, delivered individually on low-loaders, craned into position, and then finished and fitted out to an extremely high standard, by off-site building specialist, MTX. The new ward was completed on budget to an extremely tight schedule, met--thanks to excellent teamwork--despite the added complication of the unit being built over a former burial ground.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000379:methods*; D006757:Hospital Units; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives