St Anne's Care Home - Clifton (near Deddington), Banbury, Oxon
"I want to thank you and your staff for the exemplary care you have given my wife over the many years she was at St Anne’s. Your staff were especially skilful, diplomatic and caring during her final days and hours."
"It is difficult to put into words the peace of mind it gave us knowing mum was so well cared for by such a skilled, professional and caring group of people."
"I just want to say a huge, HUGE, THANK YOU to you all for the wonderful, tender loving care you have given to my sister over the past 12½ years.. It has been a great help to me that she has been treated with such loving kindness and tender care by the carers and I will always be grateful to you for this."
"The feature of St Anne’s I admire the most is the kindness and affection the staff display towards the residents. This makes it completely different from any other nursing or residential home I have known. They have only you to love them; we are too remote and visit too infrequently, it’s the day-to-day contact that means the most. Her years at St Anne’s have been happy ones, happier, indeed, than I had supposed her condition would permit.
….Always a happy atmosphere….
….Very caring staff and patient….
….The food looks excellent….
….Good diverse range of activities….
….Clean and tidy and air smells fresh….
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"THE HAVEN : Written by a resident’s husband
Patience with patients is an essential requirement
For carers – they’re pink! – of ladies in retirement;
This, with other virtues will show well in Inspection
And enhance St Anne’s name for elderly protection
"I’m old, but I’m young – and I’m only twenty one –
I’ve lost my purse and my coat and Mother hasn’t come –
Please come and help me – Oh, and yes – there’s the other thing –
My hat and my shoes, my suitcase and my lovely rings"
"Don’t worry, dear, they’ll all turn up soon, you will see –
Meanwhile here’s the trolley with a nice cup of tea!
There’s a game you can play and a happy half hour
Of watching TV, or arranging a flower"
And so life progresses from worry to calm
With none of the staff allowing any alarm;
Here’s a settled and ordered and delightful community
That is kept from life’s traumas with surprising immunity.
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