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Richardson Care Restructures to Provide Seamless Care Pathway

Richardson Care has restructured its specialist services for adults with acquired brain injury or learning disabilities and complex needs to provide a seamless and flexible care pathway.

The Northampton-based care provider has six residential care homes and a long proven track record of delivering successful outcomes for service users. It remains an independent family business and Director Laura RichardsonCheater explained the reasons for the restructure: “We have always placed the service user at the centre of their care and the business has evolved to deliver different types of rehabilitation and therapy. We realised that by making some small changes, we could redefine our services to make them clearer for commissioners and take the business forward to a higher level of excellence. “With six residential care homes, we have the flexibility to provide a seamless rehabilitation pathway. This enables the individual to progress within the supportive environment of the Richardson Care family.”

THE SERVICES ARE:

1. ABI assessment & complex diagnosis unit, The Coach House 2. ABI rehabilitation & transitional service, The Richardson Mews 3. Long-term community neuro-rehabilitation service for men, 144 Boughton Green Road 4. Transitional & long-term LD & complex needs service, 23 Duston Road 5. Long-term community LD & complex needs service, 2 & 8 Kingsthorpe Grove

Laura continues: “Our admissions policy has always been to place an individual in the home that is most appropriate – both for their needs and the needs of the existing residents. This restructure has formalised that process while retaining flexibility.

"We have over 30 years of experience in supporting people with acquired brain injury and complex needs and have found that they need an initial period of stability before we can fully assess their needs."

“We have over 30 years of experience in supporting people with acquired brain injury and complex needs and have found that they need an initial period of stability before we can fully assess their needs. The Coach House is the ideal environment for this because it is self-contained and secure. After this period the individual may stay in the Coach House or move to our transitional or long-term community rehabilitation services. We are also planning to provide high-input supported living accommodation for people with acquired brain injury or learning disabilities.” Richardson Care combines a unique homely environment with a therapeutic regime devised by an experienced multi-disciplinary team of therapists. The focus on community is clear in all of the homes where a wide range of activities are on offer. This supportive environment contributes to engagement in therapies with the ultimate goal of service users being able to live a happy and fulfilling life.

For more information call 01604 791266 or visit www.richardsoncares.co.uk