Celebrating ten years of our Inpatient Unit
Significant community support helped ensure our 20-bed IPU could open
This Spring marks a decade of care provided in our Inpatient Unit in Bartestree.
March 31st 2015 marked the biggest expansion, at that point, of our care since we first welcomed patients back in 1984.
It was made possible thanks to the unwavering commitment of our community, and the incredible generosity of the late Clive Richards, who together with his wife, Sylvia, donated £1million to the build.
This gift went a long way to ensuring our patients were, for the first time, cared for in their own private ensuite rooms, each with the benefit of a garden or orchard view.
Clive and Sylvia’s donation, together with the vital fundraising carried out through the county and beyond, has helped ensure St Michael’s is at the forefront of palliative and end-of-life care, both now and into the future.
Since then, hundreds of families have experienced the warm, bright welcome for which St Michael’s is known.