January News

Grabouw has experienced very hot weather this New Year. Temperatures soared to over 38 degrees celsius and has made it very challenging for all ThembaCare Grabouw staff to work. The In Patient Unit’s fans did little to relieve the patients and the staff of their discomfort, as only extremely hot air was being circulated. The Palliative Community Care Workers suffered the most as they had to walk to their patients in the blistering heat!! Despite this the community team managed to reach their NACOSA patient home visit targets. Well done to them for their hard work and endurance!!

ThembaCare Grabouw had its final Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) Phase 2 Audit on the 1st December 2011 and achieved an overall rating of 94%. Thus ThembaCare Grabouw is now a proud “2 Star “ rated hospice!!!! For those of you who don’t know, this is not an easy level to reach and involves us having to maintain a very high standard of care to be recognised as such. All the ‘I’s have to be dotted and ‘T’s crossed. Many thanks are given to all those involved who worked so hard to help achieve this difficult task and process!!!!

ThembaCare Grabouw’s staff hope that 2012 will be an even better year than 2011 and that we can continue offering Palliative Nursing Care & hope, to all our terminally ill, HIV, TB, Cancer & Chronic patients in the community of Grabouw.