HC-One is celebrating after winning two awards at the National Care Awards 2024.
The Sabrina Specialist Dementia Care Community (SDCC) Team at Meadow Bank Care Home in Preston, Lancashire, won the Care Team of the Year Award, and HC-One’s CEO James Tugendhat received the Care Personality of the Year Award.
Meadow Bank Care Home’s SDCC pioneers an enhanced therapeutic service that focuses on the welfare and wellbeing of people who are emotionally distressed by their dementia and therefore require specialist care and support. Recent data has shown that this approach has resulted in a 90 per cent decrease in resident distress-related incidents. Furthermore, 60 per cent of residents showed improvement in ‘Primary Behaviours of Concern’, while 88 per cent improved their ‘Total Complexity of Need Profile’.
Anne-Marie Potter, specialist dementia service lead at Meadow Bank’s Sabrina Community, said: “We aim to provide a ‘home from home’ for our residents and their families. The team is continually evolving its approach to ensure that we deliver promising results. We are delighted that our Sabrina SDCC therapeutic community is leading the way in specialist dementia care.”
HC-One CEO James Tugendhat commented: “I am delighted that the Sabrina Community Team at Meadow Bank Care Home were recognised for the incredible work they do, which is making such a meaningful difference to the lives of residents. I’m very proud of the SDCC team for their pioneering approach to dementia care – it’s a privilege to work with such inspirational, caring and kind colleagues.
“I was also very humbled to receive the Care Personality of the Year award. I’m very proud to be part of an incredible team at HC-One who support those in our care to lead their best life, and this award is really for them – they do so much to support our residents. I’m very much looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together in 2025!”
