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"This wonderful home is all we hoped it would be and is a benchmark for others caring for profoundly disabled young people. We have been particularly impressed with the emphasis on the care of each resident as an individual, with the programme of activities and therapies both on-site and externally, with the high standards of care and training and quite simply with the love and security in which staff 'cocoon' all the residents - a true home in every sense of the word."

About Martha Trust & Martha House

Martha House is managed on a not-for-profit basis by a Board of local Trustees who include the Founders of the Trust. The first resident was welcomed to the home in January 1997.

The whole nursing home has been carefully designed for wheelchair users and incorporates a wide variety of specialised fittings, such as baths, hoists and beds.

The Therapy Centre attached to the home offers a wide range of therapies including: hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, aromatherapy, music, art, speech and multi-sensory therapies.

The large garden which surrounds the buildings has been designed and planned to incorporate special play equipment for residents in wheelchairs, and to provide important elements for therapy and sensory stimulation.

Our Residents

No age limits apply to the home so that people are not required to move to another home at the age of eighteen, when they cease to be recognised, in law, as a child. This gives, most importantly, continuity of care for residents and reassurance to their parents and family.

Parents and relatives are welcome to visit at any time, and we have a special room set aside to enable them to stay overnight. In addition, the views and wishes of parents are constantly sought and respected when the residents' individual care plans are being drawn up and regularly reviewed.

The home is registered by Herefordshire Health Authority as a Nursing Home to provide permanent and respite care for both children and adults. The people living at Martha House have complex needs, and are totally dependent, requiring constant attention and nursing care.