Kiewiet is HSFA’s newly opened Respite and Palliative Care Unit. The service includes 24-hour nursing care for the older person requiring Respite, Post Operative and Palliative support, in a safe and caring environment. Respite care provides short-term relief for primary caregivers. It can be arranged for just a day or for several days or weeks for temporary frail care or post operative / hospitalisation care following a step-down facility. Palliative care is specialised medical care that focuses on providing patients relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious illness, no matter the diagnosis or stage of disease. Palliative care teams aim to improve the quality of life for both patients and their families. Services at Kiewiet Unit include: • Furnished temporary accommodation • All meals and teas • 24-hour nursing care (note this is not a stepdown facility) • Emergency call buttons • Activities • Retirement Village Package DSTV • Laundry • Cleaning / housekeeping • Situated on Vonke Park which has 24-hour security.. Call Hanlie Theron on 021 8525130.
. The service includes 24-hour nursing care for the older person requiring Respite, Post Operative and Palliative support, in a safe and caring environment. Respite care provides short-term relief for primary caregivers. It can be arranged for just a day or for several days or weeks for temporary frail care or post operative / hospitalisation care following a step-down facility. Palliative care is specialised medical care that focuses on providing patients relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious illness, no matter the diagnosis or stage of disease. Palliative care teams aim to improve the quality of life for both patients and their families. Services at Kiewiet Unit include: • Furnished temporary accommodation • All meals and teas • 24-hour nursing care (note this is not a stepdown facility) • Emergency call buttons • Activities • Retirement Village Package DSTV • Laundry • Cleaning / housekeeping • Situated on Vonke Park which has 24-hour security.. Call Hanlie Theron on 021 8525130.
Beaumont Primary School have always had a special relationship with the HSFA and frequent our halls singing in concerts or providing us with flowers. Beaumont provided the HSFA beautiful Christmas Gift Bags full of toiletries and treats. All 620 residents also received BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED cards from the pupils of Beaumont! The gift bags were delivered to those residents who have no family and/or financial support, and the recipients were very grateful for this generosity. Thank you to all the Beaumont families, the Head Boys and Head Girls (Nathan Nissen, Jamie Wege, Klara Korber and Nina van Reenen) as well as Dez Struwig who manages the programme and Dwain Brown, the new Headmaster of Beaumont Primary. It is hard to describe the delight on the faces of our residents who received the gifts. Thank you!
At our Long Service Awards lunch, the HSFA Board and management team recognised the valuable contributions that several of our employees have made to our organisation. The HSFA staff is the core of our organisation and their passion for helping our residents is what makes a difference every day. The awards for 10 years went to Caroline Godfrey, Nombuyiselo Rawusana, Nokuthula Gana and Emma Bailey all from Support Centre and the awards for 15 years went to Freddie Williams from the Facilities Department as well as Xoliswa Fekade, Noluvo Mdemka and Daphne Claasen from the Support Centre. The awards for 20 years went to Lionel Wilson from Human Resources Department, Desire Booysen from Support Centre and Eureka Haefele from Independent Living. Sara Lintnaar from Mountview, who was awarded the certificate for 35 special years of service, gave a beautiful speech and Georgina Arone from the Support Centre, who made the 40-year milestone, was sadly absent but celebrated all the same! Thank you all for your loyalty and dedication to the wellbeing of our residents.
March and April were months full of drama at the HSFA! So when our residents were saying “Break a Leg” this did not mean that next step meant a hip or knee replacement, but rather a moment of glory on stage!!
All units (Independent Living, Assisted Living and Frailcare) were invited to join drama workshops as presented by two lovely ladies, Coleen van Staden and Celia Musikanth from Circle Productions Cape Town . Howls of laughter and impassioned shouting was heard in the halls of the units with our residents acting out Shakespeare’s most rude lines (sometimes translated into Afrikaans!) Movement and mime were practiced, and character sketches as well as poems were rolled out. Thank you to the lovely drama teachers who showed us how many theatrical players, tuneful singers, and drama queens we actually have at the HSFA! Watch this space – HSFA HAS TALENT will be back with a vengeance!
The residents of HSFA Silver Oaks Assisted Living Lodge benefitting from an informative talk by Audiologist and Practice Manager Kelly Newman from Kind2Hearing as part of the World Hearing Month awareness programme.
