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Woodland View Care Home
Woodland View Care Home
Woodland View Care Home
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WOODLAND VIEW CARE HOME

(4.9 Score)
Turner Road, Colchester CO4 5JR, UK Directions

Since 2016

Speciality:

✓ Access To Kitchen Facilities ✓ Activity Classes ✓ Activity Room ✓ Bar/Café ✓ Conservatory ✓ Day Trips ✓ Exercise Classes ✓ Flexible Mealtimes ✓ Internet Access/Wifi ✓ Digital Care Planning ✓ Laundry ✓ Landscaped Gardens ✓ Night Bite Menu ✓ Private Dining ✓ Quiet Lounge ✓ Relatives Meal With Residents ✓ Sensory Garden ✓ Special Dietary Requirements ✓ TV Lounge ✓ Disabled Bathroom ✓ Disabled WC/facilities ✓ Disabled Parking ✓ Disability Awareness/equality Training ✓ Lift ✓ En-suite Toilet ✓ En-suite Toilet Plus Bath/Shower ✓ Furnished Rooms and Own Furniture Welcomed ✓ Nurse Call System ✓ Overnight Visitor Facilities ✓ Pets Allowed ✓ Room With Garden Views

“Woodland View Care Home has a team of qualified and dedicated staff focused on the individual needs of residents. The care home provides high-quality residential care in a warm, homely, friendly environment. They offer a constantly evolving menu that caters to tastes and dietary requirements. Woodland View Care Home provides 24-hour special care for its residents. Every day, staff help residents continue to lead meaningful lives, taking the time to understand each person’s life story, routines, and what brings them joy, so care can be tailored to individual needs and wishes.

2025 Update: At Woodland View Care Home, it’s more than just a care home; it’s a family home. The friendly, dedicated, and well-trained team provides the very best care and support, whether residents need residential care, nursing care, dementia support, or respite care.”

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Price:

Weekly Charges From £1700

Contact:

01206 931387 01206 855390

Open 24 Hours

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Alderwood Care Home
Alderwood Care Home
Alderwood Care Home
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3+ YEARS IN TBR
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ALDERWOOD CARE HOME

(4.8 Score)
39 Essex Hall Road, Colchester CO1 1ZP, UK Directions

Speciality:

✓ Dietary ✓ Nursing Assessment ✓ Pharmacy Service ✓ Full Activities Program ✓ Weekly Outings ✓ Personal Laundry Service ✓ Mobility Assistance ✓ Personal Grooming ✓ Nutritional Counselling ✓ Social Activities ✓ Games

“Alderwood Care Home provides caring and compassionate nursing and residential care, and dementia care, where residents are supported to live a happy life. Their excellent and experienced home manager, Nikki. Nikki has been a registered nurse for 40 years. Staff deliver personalised, discreet care tailored to each resident’s needs, preferences, and aspirations, combined with gentle encouragement to help everyone remain as independent as possible.

2025 Update: The home's dedicated and highly trained staff provide loving, high-quality care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, within the comfort and safety of the home. With skilled registered nurses and a kind, respectful approach to care, the team offers support and reassurance to residents whenever needed, while also giving peace of mind to their loved ones.”

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Contact:

01206 237 344 01206 574266

Open 24 Hours

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St Fillans Care Home
St Fillans Care Home
St Fillans Care Home
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ST FILLANS CARE HOME

(4.6 Score)
St Fillans Road, Colchester CO4 0PT, UK Directions

Since 2012

Speciality:

✓ Private Dining Area ✓ Visitors Welcome Throughout The Day ✓ Reminiscence Room ✓ Large Gardens and Courtyard Areas ✓ Wi-fi Available ✓ All Floors Are Wheelchair Accessible ✓ Car Parking

“St Fillans Care Home provides long-term and respite care, including residential care, residential dementia care, nursing care, and dementia care. Their home is purpose-built with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The home features modern, light, and airy communal areas coupled with more intimate, yet spacious, en-suite bedrooms. They take pride in caring for their residents with friendly service.

2025 Update: St Fillans Care Home is a family-owned and run company, and the team also provides a friendly, listening ear for residents’ loved ones. The home features 71 spacious en-suite bedrooms, each at least 12m², spread across four care suites over two floors, as well as two couples’ rooms for those who wish to stay together.”

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Price:

Weekly Charges per Person
Self-Funded Residential Care: from £1375
Self-Funded Residential Dementia Care: from £1400
Self-Funded Nursing Care: from £1735
Self-Funded Nursing Dementia Care: from £1785
RESPITE Self-Funded Residential Care: from £1375
RESPITE Self-Funded Residential Dementia Care: from £1399
RESPITE Self-Funded Nursing Care: from £1735
RESPITE Self-Funded Nursing Dementia Care: from £1785

Contact:

01206 855 407

Open 24 Hours

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WOODLAND VIEW CARE HOME REVIEWS

As a family, we have found Barchester Woodland View Care Home to be a very caring home for our mother to live in. Many of the activities she has been encouraged to take part in and the overall experience has been rewarding for both her and us. It's great to see Mother looking well, eating well and smiting.

Two weeks respite care, all the staff are very helpful. The home and all about it is excellent.

Excellent. Enjoying my time. Feel secure. Staff are very helpful and pleasant.

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ALDERWOOD CARE HOME REVIEWS

A truly outstanding care home. Warm, loving and respectful with an undance of happy smiling faces. All staff show love and care with a positive itude towards the residents. I can not praise Alderwood enough, mum loved her time there.

We cannot thank the team enough for the exceptional care they gave my mother in law in the last 6 weeks of her life.Nothing was too much trouble & we where always kept informed of her progress .Nicci the care home manager takes a personal interest in every resident & their families & ensured mum's final days where handled with absolute dignity With special thanks also to Charlotte Claire & Tanya.

ST FILLANS CARE HOME REVIEWS

I have worked at St Fillans for the past 5 years, I feel lucky to work with such a great team. The management we have now are the best I have seen, they care about the staff and support us. I have worked in care for 10 years and this is by far the most caring and well led home.

Wonderful care home with friendly staff and effective management. The dedication which the staff is putting forward is worth mentioning. Kudos to the leadership.

I have worked here for 6 years this place this is the place which delivers the best care and consideration to its resident. I am proud to work here at st Fillans.

TBR® Inspection Score Report

WOODLAND VIEW CARE HOME Total Inspection Points: 117/120
Experience: 8
Complete Info: 9
Business Hours: 10
Business Images: 10
Contact Info: 10
Current Evaluation: 10
Exact Services: 10
Legitimate Ratings: 10
Location Proximity: 10
Pricing: 10
Special Features: 10
Videos: 10

TBR® Inspection Score Report

ALDERWOOD CARE HOME Total Inspection Points: 116/120
Complete Info: 9
Current Evaluation: 9
Reviews Study: 9
Special Features: 9
Acknowledgements: 10
Business Hours: 10
Business Images: 10
Contact Info: 10
Exact Services: 10
Legitimate Ratings: 10
Location Proximity: 10
Videos: 10

TBR® Inspection Score Report

ST FILLANS CARE HOME Total Inspection Points: 111/120
Current Evaluation: 8
Experience: 8
Reviews Accuracy of : 8
Reviews Study: 8
Complete Info: 9
Business Hours: 10
Business Images: 10
Contact Info: 10
Exact Services: 10
Legitimate Ratings: 10
Pricing: 10
Videos: 10
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