About Bethshan
Bethshan is a purpose-built Care Home designed to provide high-quality individual accommodation. Our safe and homely environment helps to promote independence, whilst maintaining personal privacy and dignity. Communal areas are comfortable and welcoming with many providing beautiful views over the town and Severn Valley.
Accommodation
We have 40 rooms divided into units of ten over two floors. Rayner and Whiteley units are on the ground floor, Davies and Weston units are on the first floor and all rooms are of course accessible by wheelchair. Each unit contains a comfortable lounge/dining room equipped with digital television and music entertainment facilities. Bedrooms are tastefully decorated and furnished to a very high standard with en-suite facilities, television point, smoke detector, nurse call system and thermostatically controlled radiator. Residents are encouraged to bring some of their own possessions such as photographs, ornaments and small items of furniture, to make their surroundings as much like home as possible.
Activities and Services
Two activity co-ordinators organise twice weekly sessions, usually including crafts, games, cookery and/or music. Special events such as “Body Shop Parties”, visits from guests like “Music in Hospitals” and outings are also regularly arranged for residents. In addition to social activities, we offer a range of other facilities to our residents:
- 24-hour Nursing Care
- Regular visits by a local GP
- Physiotherapy
- Hairdressing
- Pampering sessions with a beauty therapist
- Regular visits from a qualified chiropodist
- Excellent home-cooking with special diets catered for
- Trolley shop containing toiletries, sweets and stationary
- Visits from the Home’s Chaplain and a weekly church service on Thursdays at 5:30pm
- Easter, Harvest and Christmas are celebrated with special activities too.
- Private telephone in bedrooms, upon request
- Volunteer visits
- Visitors bedroom
- Beautiful garden
- Balconies overlooking Newtown
(Certain facilities/services are at extra cost)
Our Staff
Bethshan offers dedicated and caring support for those who can no longer live at home. Our team of staff provides a perfect balance of qualified nursing care and home comforts. They are committed to the well-being of those in their care and are selected just as much for their warmth and personality as their professional abilities.
All of our staff recieve a comprehensive induction programme and are encouraged to develop their nursing and caring skills through training courses offered. Non-qualified staff are also encouraged to work towards NVQ qualifications.
Each resident is assigned a KeyWorker who will take a special interest in the resident and their relatives, involving them in planning all aspects of the resident's care.
Our Location
We are set on top of Heol Treowen in Newtown, with beautiful views over the rural market town and its surrounding area. There is good access to the home from both directions with the A489 passing through the centre of Newtown. We have parking on site and you can also park in the large carpark at Hope Community Church just down the hill. See map.
From Pool Road (A483 from Shrewsbury/Welshpool direction):
1. Continue on Pool Road past Morrisons supermarket, following the road straight on at the first and second sets of traffic lights.
2. Turn left at the third set of lights just before LIDL supermarket, to go under the railway bridge.
3. Take the first left past Hope Community Church and continue up Heol Treowen.
4. You should see Bethshan on your left.
Directions from Llanidloes Road (A470 from Llanidloes/Aberystwyth direction):
1. Pass Coleg Powys (go straight over the roundabout) and follow the A470 under the railway bridge.
2. Go through the first set of traffic lights and turn right at the second set of lights, just past LIDL supermarket.
3. Take the first left past Hope Community Church and continue up Heol Treowen.
4. You should see Bethshan on your left.
Inspection Report 2010
The Home is inspected twice each year by CSSIW (Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales), once in an unannounced visit and once during a planned visit. To view the inspection report for 2010, click the link below.
Inspection Report 2010
Bethshan Newsletter
The Bethshan Newsletter contains information about events that have happened, new facilities and photographs. Click the link below to view the Newsletter for Spring 2011.
Newsletter for Spring 2011
Bethshan's Statement of Purpose
Our Statement of Purpose explains our aims and objectives, as well as providing other information about Bethshan. Click the link below to view the Statement of Purpose
Bethshan's Statement of Purpose