A new integrated service for people in North Mersey, based at Longmoor House (formerly Stoddart House), has opened following a joint project between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (MCFT) and Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (LUHFT).
The service currently provides 69 beds and replaces the Intermediate Care service provided on Ward 35 at LUHFT’s Aintree University Hospital site.
The facility includes Activities of Daily Living (ADL) kitchens, activity spaces as well as a range of single and dual occupancy rooms. It will serve patients needing ongoing nursing, therapy and reablement needs, working towards collaborative goals to support timely discharge.
The service provides step down capacity from acute trusts for medically stable and optimised patients, whose care and assessment can be continued in a non-acute setting until they are ready to go home. It will also be open to patients needing step up care from community settings that require reablement or convalescence where alternative out of hospital home care has been exhausted.
Referrals can be made via the Single Point of Contact, which operates from 8.00am until 9.00pm Monday to Sunday on 0300 323 0240.
Friends and family of patients can visit either of the two wards between the following times:
Monday–Sunday: 1-5pm and 6- 8.30pm.
Protected meal times are operational between 12 noon– 1pm and 5– 6pm.
How to contact us
Please call our switchboard on 0151 473 0303 for service enquiries.
Contacting our wards
If you would like to speak to one of our patients, please call:
Ward 1: 0151 296 7269 or 0151 296 7186
Ward 2: 0151 296 7284 or 0151 296 7202