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Wales To Welcome 33 Cube Modular Visitor Pods At Care Homes Across The Country

Wales To Welcome 33 Cube Modular Visitor Pods At Care Homes Across The Country

Mar 30, 2021 | Covid-19 solutions

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Wales To Welcome 33 Cube Modular Visitor Pods At Care Homes Across The Country

Over the next few weeks Cube Modular will be spending a lot of time in Wales, delivering visitor pods to care homes in almost every corner of this beautiful country. The team is currently brushing up on its Welsh name pronunciation skills, finding those without vowels particularly tricky!

The 33 pods are being rented for six months under a Welsh government scheme which enables care homes to offer COVID-secure visits in a comfortable setting outside their main buildings. The temporary buildings have all been built to meet government grant criteria, including two separate entrances, wipeable flooring and a floor-to-ceiling screen partition inside.

The deliveries comprise three different Cube visitor pod models, all of which include ceiling lights, electric heaters, power sockets and a speaker and microphone system with hearing loop.

FP10D Pod: Where space isn’t an issue, our 6m long FP10D offers the most generous proportions.

SVP Purpose Built: Our bespoke SVP pod can be configured with alternative door positioning to suit differing layouts of care home sites.

GRP35 Pod: The most recent GRP model is also the smallest, with 2.2m width instead of 2.4m. If access is an issue it can be assembled on site.

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Cube’s Welsh pods have all been treated with an anti-microbial coating covering internal surfaces to give additional COVID-19 protection for a minimum of three months.

Some care homes have already got plans in place to purchase or extend rental of their pods at the end of the six month period, and will eventually re-purpose them for professional appointments such as podiatry, or as therapy rooms, garden sitting rooms etc.

In England care homes may also be able to claim funding, at their local authority’s discretion, under the recently announced extension of the Adult Social Care Infection Control funding, depending on the criteria which has yet to be announced for Round 3.

For more information and to download a brochure with pricing, visit our solutions for care homes page. 

CARE HOME VISITOR PODS

For more information about our Care Home Visitor Pods click here,

speak to our team on 01905 955814 or send us an enquiry

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Care Home Visiting Pod – Case Study

Care Home Visiting Pod – Case Study

Jan 13, 2021 | Covid-19 solutions, modular portable buildings

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CARE HOME VISITING POD – A CASE STUDY

Cube Modular brings Worcester Lodge Care Home’s residents and families together with a flat-packed FP10D care home visiting pod.

THE BRIEF

In December 2020, Cube provided Worcester Lodge Care Home, part of the Osborne Care Community, with a dedicated care home visiting pod. With the advent of the pandemic, visits were initially taking place in a dedicated room which meant that visitors had to pass through the main care home building. As government guidance on visiting changed the home felt that the risk posed by visitors coming into the building was unjustified and alternative arrangements needed to be explored.

CLIENT: Osborne Care Community

VENUE: Worcester Lodge Care Home, Somerset

PRODUCT SUPPLIED: FP10D (flat-packed care home visiting pod)

INSTALLATION DATE: 11th December 2020

Cube Modular’s visiting pods offered the perfect solution:

  • Visits take place in a dedicated external building, so visitors do not need to enter the care home itself
  • The care home could furnish the pod themselves and make it personal, comfortable and homely
  • The size of the pod is generous
  • It was very easy to have it installed in the car park
  • Wheelchair ramps made access easy for residents

We were also selected as the chosen supplier due to the fact that Osborne Care Community were enamoured with Cube’s company ethos, our pricing was attractive and offering a short lead time meant that the pod would be in place in time for the busy Christmas period.

WHAT WE SUPPLIED:

CARE HOME VISITING POD, MODEL FP10D (WF)

INTERNAL DIMENSIONS: 5844 mm x 2225mm x 2300mm

EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS: 6058mm x 2438mm x 2591mm

DOOR DIMENSIONS: 760mm (w) x 2100mm (h)
Maximum opening width 735mm

NUMBER OF DOORS: 2

WINDOWS: Two 800mm x 1000mm uPVC double glazed ‘tilt & turn’ inwardly opening windows with manual internal sun shutters

INTERNAL SCREEN: Fixed aluminium frame with 5mm perspex

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION: two double power sockets, led ceiling light, ceiling mounted RCD, external 32amp three pin commando socket (32amp single phase connector from mains supply supplied by client)

HEATING: Two 1.5kw wall mounted heaters

INTERCOM SYSTEM: Speaker and microphone system with volume control

ACCESS RAMPS: Two metal checkerplate ramps

FLOOR COVERING: Grey carpet tiles throughout 

THE RESULT 

During these challenging times, it has been very important for Worcester Lodge to find a solution where families could be connected and reunited in a safe, secure and risk-mitigating way. Cube’s care home visiting pod has been extremely well received by staff, residents and visitors alike. On the home’s private Facebook page for relatives of residents, many have expressed their delight and gratitude by posting thank you messages and sharing photographs with the group.

Joshua Slator, Director at Osborne Care Community, shared with us the following story:

Janet Cover, whose husband Tony is a resident a Worcester Lodge, said that visiting the pod for the first time was lovely and she cried happy tears. “It was wonderful”, she said “so much better than a window visit.” Tony was also very comfortable and very happy to see Jan. Janet can’t thank Worcester Lodge enough for all the care the home is giving to her husband.

“The FP10D pod has been an incredible addition to the home to allow safe and secure visits for families. It is spacious, easy to get up and running and to kit out with our own furniture to make it homely. Without doubt it has made a difference to people’s lives in the run up to Christmas. The intercom is easy to use and clear for people to hear. The ramps make access simple. Could not be happier!”
Joshua Slator, Director, The Osborne Care Community

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Care Home Visitor Pods Bring Residents And Families Together For The First Time Since Lockdown

Care Home Visitor Pods Bring Residents And Families Together For The First Time Since Lockdown

Sep 18, 2020 | Covid-19 solutions, foldable containers

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Care Home Visitor Pods Bring Residents And Families Together For The First Time Since Lockdown

Cube Modular has delivered three care home visitor pods to the Eastleigh Care Home group in Devon. The covid-secure guest pods, branded as ‘Visitor Hubs’, were installed at the entrance of three of the group’s luxury care homes, enabling residents and loved ones to be reunited in person in the same room, for the very first time since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Eastleigh Care Homes pride themselves on offering a warm and caring environment for their residents, with a mission ‘to make it a family environment and fulfil people’s lives’. The new visitor pods now enable residents of the homes to be reunited with family and friends in a controlled, private, relaxed and covid-secure setting.

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care home visitor pods

Owner and Chairman Garry Wilson said: “We look to provide a facility and service which emulates everything I would look for if it were for me or my family. A warm and caring environment, with our residents at the heart of everything we do.

“Following a long period of lockdown and shielding, with currently no end in sight, we are totally delighted to offer our residents and their families a new and secure area to meet up. The smile on everyone’s face says it all. Staff, residents, family and friends at Eastleigh is just thrilled with the solution Cube Moduar has provided for us. The visitor pods have brought us a ray of sunshine during these most troubling times.” 

Brandon Weston, Cube Modular’s MD, added: “We are thrilled that our care home visitor pods have been so well received. The response to our covid-secure portable building initiative has been immense. With further restrictions announced by the government recently, we are delighted that we can offer care homes a unique, modular solution which enables comfort for residents through personal contact with loved ones, in a most safe, secure, and risk-mitigating way. We hope to install many more at care homes across the UK.”

Cube Modular’s Visitor Pods are a modular foldable container solution for Care Homes in the UK. Fully flexible in size, configuration and internal fit-out, units can be set up in minutes and are available on both a hire and purchase basis. The pods installed at the East Street, Raleigh Mead and Minehead nursing and residential care homes were delivered fully carpeted, with wheelchair ramps and heaters added, for easy access and additional comfort for the winter months ahead.

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CARE HOME VISITOR PODS

For more information about our Care Home Visitor Pods click here,

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Care Home Delight As Visitor Pod Is Installed

Care Home Delight As Visitor Pod Is Installed

Aug 26, 2020 | Covid-19 solutions, foldable containers

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Care Home Delight As Visitor Pod Is Installed

Cube Modular has delivered one of its Covid-secure care home visitor pods to Blackpool to the delight of everyone at Annacliffe Residential Care Home. The guest pod, branded as the Visitor Hub, was installed at the forecourt of the residential home and will reunite residents and loved ones, in person in the same room, for the very first time since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Annacliffe, a residential home which provides professional care in a most attentive and family-orientated environment to approximately 60 residents, has described the arrival of its visitor pod as a ‘ray of sunshire’. The visitor pod will enable them to bring together their residents with family and friends in a controlled, relaxed and covid-secure setting.

Owner and Manager, Alexandra Burke, commented: “We are absolutely delighted for our residents. Finally, after months of uncertainty and anxiety for our wonderful, but infection-vulnerable, residents, we are able to offer them a space, a totally separate space, in which they can meet their family and loved ones in person. No more waving through windows. No more wordless meetings. I am so delighted for them all, as well as for their families and our staff. Cube Modular has given us the perfect solution to continue through these most worrying times. I couldn’t be more pleased to have been able to make this happen for everyone involved. The pod really has brought a ray of sunshine to our residents.”

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Brandon Weston, Cube Modular’s MD, added: “We are thrilled to have made this possible for everyone at Annacliffe. When we arrived to install the pod, the excitement was palpable. The look on everyone’s faces said it all!

“The response to our Care Home Visitor Pods initiative has been immense. We are delighted that we can offer care homes a unique, portable building solution which not only enables a personal and controlled contact between care home residents and loved ones during the pandemic, but also does so in a most safe, secure, and risk-mitigating way. We are looking forward to installing many more at care homes across the UK.”

Through utilising the Visitor Hub, Annacliffe is now able to organise scheduled visitor bookings for guests every hour. Each visit will be take place for 20 minutes, followed by a rigorous cleaning procedure for 40 minutes before the next visit is due.

After months of lockdown, shielding and protection of the UK’s elderly care home residents, Cube’s Care Home Visitor Pods are a portable building solution, which not only helps mitigate the spread of the virus, it also brings back a little joy, comfort and security to those who need it most.

Cube Modular’s Visitor Pods are a modular foldable container solution for Care Homes in the UK. Fully flexible in size, configuration and internal fit-out, units are available on both a hire and purchase basis.

CARE HOME VISITOR PODS

For more information about our Care Home Visitor Pods click here,

speak to our team on 01905 955814 or send us an enquiry

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Part of the Cube International group, Cube Modular designs and manufactures modular portable buildings and containers of exceptional design, quality and functionality for sports events, venues, stadia and businesses. 

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