About Edenvale Home & Hospital
Edenvale Rest Home & Hospital is a modern, warm and inviting residence with the addition of dementia care set in tranquil landscaped grounds in the heart of Mt Eden.
Providing holistic quality living, Edenvale Home & Hospital is a non-profit charitable trust, providing quality care and accommodation within a family environment. With a committed team, we aim to provide a safe, homelike and tranquil environment for every resident.
Residents are encouraged to make Edenvale their home, which means that guests and day visitors are made to feel welcome too.
Level grounds encompass mature landscaped gardens, concrete walkways and sheltered, restful courtyards. Edenvale Home & Hospital is situated within easy walking distance of shops, public transport, library, churches and other community services. As Edenvale Home & Hospital is set back from a quiet tree-lined street in the residential suburb of Mt Eden, residents are guaranteed a tranquil environment day and night.
Christian Principles guide management in all its decision-making. We maintain an attitude of love, acceptance and respect for every individual within Edenvale Home & Hospital. Valuing each resident is of the utmost importance and goes a long way in ensuring the success of Edenvale Home & Hospital, and most importantly, the comfort and happiness of our residents and their families.
All our rooms are dual service. Our small, homely dementia unit provides a safe, sunny environment for the elderly who require secure dementia care.
We welcome your visit as you decide on the best place for the care and wellbeing of your loved ones.
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At Edenvale you can expect...
Dedicated care
Residents are in the superb care of numerous dedicated staff overseen by the General Manager and Clinical Leader, supported by fully qualified Registered Nurses and Nurse Aids providing 24-hour care.
Medical Consultation Clinics are conducted on-site by the contracted GP and Nurse Practitioner.
Regular on-site services include a Podiatrist, Hairdresser, Physiotherapist, and visiting Chaplain.
Our Dementia unit is relatively active but not busy. Residents are able to enjoy the freedom to wander out to the gardens within the secure environment. Our fully qualified staff specialize in Dementia care and make residents as comfortable as possible, including them in outings and small group activities specific to Dementia residents.
A lively environment
Staff, residents and visiting groups organize a weekly programme of various activities to take part in.
These include music, special birthday parties, sightseeing day trips, games, choir, special interest groups, concerts, exercises, collage, crafts, board games, bingo, cards and walks, etc.
A Women’s Auxiliary group holds a monthly birthday party for those residents who have a birthday during the month.
On residents’ birthdays, they receive a gift from the Auxiliary group, a special birthday cake is organized for morning tea, and everyone joins the celebrations by singing ‘Happy Birthday’.
Devotional services are held in the main lounge, residents may attend the Friday morning devotional service and/or the Sunday afternoon service if they desire.
Our Wednesday concert is a popular event where residents and staff enjoy dancing to popular music. After the fun and laughter, a cup of tea is enjoyed by all. Our hospital and dementia residents also join the fun.
There is a main dining room, TV lounge, and smaller reading sunroom/lounges for personal entertaining and recreational pursuits. Edenvale Home & Hospital's large open lounge is the main focal and gathering point for all residents.
Safety and warmth
Edenvale Home & Hospital consists of well-maintained solid brick and tile buildings with plush wall to wall carpet, electric heating, warm lighting and modern decor throughout.
Generous corridors with gently sloped floors provide wheelchair access to all facilities within the building.
The Residents are spoiled with the home's sunny north facing feature and holds 41 individual rooms. Each room is amply sized and comes fully furnished with a single bed and mattress, bedding, dresser, wardrobe, electric heater, mirror and bedside lighting. Some rooms have spacious ensuites while others are located adjacent to shared bathroom facilities.
Washrooms, showers and full on-site personal laundry are all accessible within the building confines.
Private television and telephone connections can be installed in residents’ rooms (at the resident's cost) if desired.
Each room has an emergency call system installed. There are fire detection systems, alarms and extinguishers throughout the complex.
Comforts of home
Fancy home cooked meals?
All of our tasty homemade meals, cakes and biscuits are professionally prepared and cooked/baked on-site by our Chef and her Team in our fully equipped commercial kitchen.
Continental breakfast is served daily in resident's bedrooms or in the dining room.
Scheduled menus are monitored and approved by a Registered Dietician - special diets can be prepared for individual needs.
Religious/Spiritual affiliations
Anglican, Baptist, Brethren (Open Brethren), Christian, Hindu, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic
Edenvale Home & Hospital Staff
Overseeing the day-to-day running of Edenvale Home & Hospital is our General Manager Raymond Stein, who holds an MBA Qualification and is also a formally qualified Life Coach. While he is relatively new to the aged care sector, he has vast experience in Operations Management, encompassing People-, Finance-, Process-, Project- and Facilities management, in addition to spending nearly 10 years as Operations Manager at the Law School of the University of Auckland. For him, serving our Residents and their families well, is what motivates him.
The General Manager is supported by a Clinical Leader, Registered Nurses and experienced Nurse Aids who provide 24-hour care. We also have a fulltime Activities Co-Ordinator, Payroll & Accounts Officer as well as an Office Administrator and onsite Maintenance person. Our catering and cleaning are contracted to Medirest (The Compass Group), who provide on-site cooks that prepare and serve delicious homemade meals and baking.
The wonderful staff of Edenvale Home & Hospital provide our residents with consistency, ensuring good relationships are maintained amongst staff and residents alike. We are proud of our long serving staff (30 years+) and consider them one of our most important assets.
Edenvale Home & Hospital is proud to have such genuine and diverse staff working and caring for our residents. Languages spoken by our team include English, Fijian, Indian, Filipino, Hindi, Niuean, Samoan, Tongan and Afrikaans.
Edenvale Home & Hospital history
On the 10th of May 1961 at a meeting of the combined leaders of Open Brethren Auckland churches the suggestion was made of the possibilities of a "Home for Aged".
A group got together for the first planning meeting on July 3rd, 1961. The need for such a home was established and many planning sessions followed.
Several properties were considered including locations in Ladies Mile, Kelston and the North Shore. None of these sites were ideal. Then in 1964 in Mt Eden 42 Edenvale Road and 10 Punga Street came on the market. Soon after 44 Edenvale Road was available to be purchased at a good price. The decision was made to go ahead.
Planning quickly went ahead and by July 1964 the outline was prepared and a formal application for a government subsidy was prepared and sent to parliament. Fundraising among the Churches was commended in November 1964. In February 1965 "The Edenvale Home Trust Board" was incorporated as a Charitable Trust.
By 1967 funding had been secured and the building project got underway. Haughey, Fox and Partners (Tom Haughey was an original board member) were the architects and engineers for the project.
In July 1968 the Social Security Department accepted the home as an approved Home for welfare purposes with the provision of supplementary government assistance.
Edenvale Home & Hospital was officially opened by the then Minister of Health, The Hon. D. McKay on the 23rd of November 1968, with honoured guest, His Worship the Mayor of Mt. Eden Mr. R. C. Mills in attendance.
For more than 50 years now, Edenvale Home & Hospital has been a welcoming home to everyone.
DAVID SETTERS
Edenvale Home Trust Board Incorporated Society Number 212747
Distances
As we’re located in Mt Eden, Edenvale Home & Hospital is close to just about everything you might need outside of our residence.
Here are some of the favourite spots and distances:
Public Transport: 100m
Mt Eden shops: 2km
Local dairy: 100m
St Lukes Shopping Centre: 3kms
Edenvale Park: 5 mins
Mt Eden Domain: 10 min walk
Library: the library bus visits Edenvale Home & Hospital occasionally
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