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Read more about Compassionate and expert careSince 1881, Sisters Hospitallers have been changing – and saving – lives at our care homes and medical clinics around the world. Driven by our Catholic faith, we work to bring to life our commitment to the powerful charism of Hospitality.
With a deeply human attitude and without discrimination, we aim to offer and provide care and support for people who are sick, disabled, elderly or suffering from dementia.
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Thank you for the music!
In Sisters Hospitallers care homes, the visitors are not allowed, as well as most of our activities have been cancelled. Last month, Christ the King care home had a busy schedule where the music was the main attraction.
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“It is difficult when they don’t accept psychological help”
Macarena Aspiunza is a psychologist who collaborates with Sisters Hospitallers. For the last four years, she has travelled regularly to Liberia to assist with psychiatric and psychotherapeutic support, accompanied by a productive and pre-work objective to improve the quality of life of the patients.
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Regional Peer-Review Exercise
At St Francis Hospital, we hosted a central regional peer-review exercise to assess the quality of services that we provide to our patients. At the end of the exercise, the facility was scored 92.4%.
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Neurologists from the USA check our patients
Neurologists from the USA check our patients in Liberia. These young doctors came to see patients who are suffering from neurological conditions.
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Welcome, Gussy & Lassie!
Interacting with pets has a therapeutic effect on all of us. It helps us to engage, and our bodies produce a chemical substance that promotes happiness. Not only that, but they give you unconditional love. Nowadays, animals are used for therapies because of their psychological benefits.
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Visiting Ganta Leprosy
Sisters, staff and volunteers of the St Benedict Menni Center and Aita Menni Hospital visited the Ganta Leprosy and TB Rehab Center. Ganta Leprosy and TB Rehab Center is a facility with capacity for 150 people. It has nursing units, pharmacy, rehabilitation, crafts and prosthesis workshops. Some of the workers are people who have suffered from the disease and after rehabilitation, they were integrated into the staff.
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My experience of voluntary work, by Sister Isabel Cantón
Sr Isabel is a Sister Hospitaller in the English Province, who is doing voluntary work at three places around London. She would like to share her experience and how fulfilment it is on a personal level. She thanks God for giving her all these opportunities to help people in need outside our own home. And I also thank the community for supporting her in this work.
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New year, new goals
Sisters Hospitallers have included in their 2020 goals doing more exercise. Our residents are taking exercise seriously. Lead by Sr Isabel, the residents gather every morning to stretch and keep their bodies fit.
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“The idea of becoming a religious came to mind”
Julia Umoren is a psychologist from Nigeria, who left her country to continue her studies in the UK. Her Catholic background helped her to spend a few days with Sisters Hospitallers in London and see at first hand a normal day living with the community.
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
The day dedicated to love has arrived and Sisters Hospitallers want to celebrate it. Our residents have made such lovely decorations. Naturally, the colour chosen was red and lots of hearts are on display. We also made some diamond strings because, as the well-known song says, “Diamonds Are Forever”!
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First International Photography Contest
Sisters Hospitallers First International Photography Contest. We are looking for photographs that show “hospitality gestures”. Show us your most creative side and win a fantastic prize!
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“Zero Maternal Mortality Project”
Sisters Hospitallers is building a new maternity Unit in Ghana, budgeted at £882,000 because the previous facility was quite small and inadequate. It is an ambitious mission because it is the only hospital structure that exists in the whole area. In recent years the hospital has been adapting to the growing needs of society, as well as to the requirements of Ghana’s health authorities.
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Sisters Hospitallers Constitutions
Sisters Hospitallers are immersed in reviewing the congregation constitutions. We would like to share with you what the sisters in Dompoase have concluded so far.
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“I am privileged to see the African Missions in action”
Martin Blake works for the English Province of Sisters Hospitallers as Assistant Bursar. He went to Africa to do some back-office accounting and see the African Mission in action.
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“No experience can be compared with helping people”
Marta Menéndez is a Spanish psychiatrist who spent one year working at Sisters Hospitallers Centre in Liberia. One year after going back to Spain, she returned to visit the centre.
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Horticulture as a Therapeutic Method
Sisters Hospitallers centre in Liberia offers to its patients a new activity since last month, horticulture. A group of volunteers from Spain spent some days at Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center. One of the tasks they did was to prepare a patch in the compound's plot to seed veggies, with seeds they brought.
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Happy New Year 2020!
Recently we celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year. Sisters Hospitallers have been very busy with the festivities!. We all love this time of the year, but always without forgetting its meaning. It has been a period for spending time with our loved ones, and celebrating and embracing the light of Christ.
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Activities & Concerts
Our residents at Christ the King had an eventful schedule. They celebrated Bonfire Night, they had their usual activities and enjoyed several performances. It was a bit more special the one from Second Chance Cancer Choir, a wonderful group of ladies have all been touched in some way by cancer and got together to form the choir, visiting places and homes like ours performing purely for donations to raise money for cancer charities.
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It’s Christmas time
Christmas is around the corner and at Sisters Hospitallers centres we are working hard to be ready for this time of the year. Let’s the magic begins!
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Music lessons!
Music is very important for our brain, besides being fun! As the French playwright, Victor Hugo, said: “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” For this reason, one of the activities in our centre in Dompoase is learning to play the drum.
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Let’s dance!
Our residents at St Augustine’s Home put their shoes and smiles on and let their bodies move with the music. Residents, sisters, co-workers, and visitors had a great time moving to the beat of the ’50s and 60’s music!
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“The difficulties helped to strengthened my faith”
We celebrated the Silver Jubilee of Sr Margaret Afful - 25 years dedicated to the service God as a Hospitaller sister.
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Games, crafts and exercise
Sisters Hospitallers care homes routine includes games, crafts and exercise. Our residents like to spend time together, be creative and move their bodies and minds.
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Special visit
Sisters Hospitallers in Dompoase welcomed Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), a group of recent graduates from different universities working on contract under the Ghana Government. They came to visit our children, bringing food and drinks.
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Sports Competition
Sisters Hospitallers in Ghana have shown its competitive side in a sports competition between the hospital and health facilities under the Assin North Municipal Health Directorate.
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£5buys resources for activities, games, music and crafts
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£10could save lives by buying nine sachets of salt to kill germs in water and make it safe to drink
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£25could enrich our residents' quality of life by providing transport to see a show, for an outing, walk or picnic
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£50could go towards a tablet or memory box to help an older person with memory recall
From heart to heart
Caring for people and defending their dignity
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