Haltwhistle Memorial Hospital

This morning I popped over to Haltwhistle to help Maureen with her physio exercises. It is so hard to know whether you are doing complicated exercises correctly. She is doing much better than a week ago, but it's a long hard slog to recovery.

After the exercises, we walked around town. This is the War Memorial Hospital which was opened in 2014. The site was home to a building called Greencroft House in the 18th Century. It was remodelled to make a hospital which opened in 1922 and the War Memorial Cross was erected in 1926.

The old hospital was demolished to make way for this new facility. It combines 15 hospital beds upstairs, with social care for the elderly downstairs. I'm glad to say that the old values from the old hospital are alive and well in this place. We have known several people who have been cared for brilliantly here, some for terminal care. 

I like the fact that someone can be admitted for six weeks for a full assessment. The staff, nearly all local women,  have time to see how elderly frail people are functioning without rushing them.

This afternoon it poured. Margaret (across the road) came for a chat with Mum.