About the New Hospice

The design of the new hospice incorporates ideas and suggestions from the young people who currently use Naomi House. Extensive consultation will ensure that it meets their medical, mobility and emotional needs.The hospice will have:

• Six spacious bedrooms with en suite bathrooms big enough to accommodate wheelchairs, specialist medical equipment and supplies, and to provide privacy, independence and dignity
• Wide corridors so that wheelchair users can go along side by side
• Hoists for easy access to and from beds and bathrooms
• Flexible wheelchair friendly living space, including an easily accessible kitchen
• Two bedrooms to enable parents and families to stay
• A special bedsitting room adjacent to the bedrooms to enable family to stay close when a young person is ill
• A Butterfly suite - a special space allowing families to stay with loved ones after death, to say goodbye and make the necessary arrangements
• A hydrotherapy suite - excellent for muscle conditions and stiff joints; it allows freedom of movement and alleviates pressure to relieve pain.

The building has been designed by Winchester-based Architecture plb which has an extensive portfolio of major projects including Redwood Park Special Educational Needs School in Cosham, Portsmouth; Winchester Cathedral Visitor Centre and the Aston Martin Museum in Drayton St Leonards, Oxfordshire.