We have 25 single and five double rooms, some with en-suite facilities. The majority of the rooms have either panoramic sea views from the upper floors or direct access to the garden. The garden is available to everyone at all times and in summer is equipped with tables and shades. Patients with mobility difficulties will be taken in and out as they request. Meals may be taken outside in clement weather assisted by a carer as required. Room sizes vary from 10 square metres upwards and all comply with the Care Home Regulations 2003.

Mount Olivet is equipped with a passenger lift to all floors. The home is designed so that there is no requirement for stair lifts. Parker and other assisted baths and showers, hoists on each floor and many other aids facilitate the care of the less able and wheelchair-bound. There are numerous electrically operated full profiling beds, high-low beds, pumped air mattresses and pressure care cellular mattresses allocated according to medical requirement. Patients may provide their own should they wish and we will advise on suitability.

Rooms are provided with a telephone jack. where a mobile payphone can be attached for outgoing calls. The home has a modern telephone exchange and private, direct lines can be installed. In addition, incoming calls  can be received on a digital cordless phone system.

The home is equipped with a call system in all rooms, bathrooms and public rooms which can only be turned off at the source of the call. There is regularly inspected fire alarm, escape and appliances and staff receive regular fire prevention and evacuation training and drills.

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