Congratulations to our Star of the Month for February 2021 - Tori Parsons! Thank you for everything you do for our residents and the team ❤️

Are you all ready for this months Grab Your Passport! trip? We're all packed for todays trip to SPAIN!! Residents have woken up to transformed communities and a typical Spanish breakfast. Our teams have dressed up for the occasion and the day has been kicked off to a great start with lots of activities with our activities and wellbeing team!

We celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday with lots of activities, arts and crafts and delicious food. Thank you to our activities and wellbeing team for organising such a fun day for everyone!

Reviews are useful to help others make informed choices about our services and we would like to ask if you would be willing to write one for us today. The more reviews we get on www.carehome.co.uk, the more likely it is that others will find us. If you would like to leave us a review, please follow these steps: 1. Go to https://www.carehome.co.uk/carehome.cfm/searchazref/10004009SPRA 2. Scroll down to ‘Reviews’ 3. Click ‘Submit a Review’ It won’t take more than a couple of minutes and we would be really appreciative of your review. We would like to thank you in advance

Can you help us out and leave a review? Reviews help others to make informed choices about our services and it also allows us to tell our wonderful staff "well done". Please can we ask, if you have a couple minutes free, to provide a review for us by following the steps below: 1. Make sure you are on the Google search engine and are signed into you Google account 2. Search for “Springfield Care Home Garforth” 3. On the right hand side of the page, you will see a profile with pictures and review stars. 4. Next to our star rating, it says how many reviews we have in blue, please click this. 5. In the top right of the box on the screen, click the blue 'write a review' button

Today, we held our Long Service Awards. Three staff were given a card, a certificate and gift voucher in recognition of their achievement. Hazel Mackintosh and Tracey Green received a £25 voucher for 5 years and Iwona Zielinska received a £50 voucher for 10 years. Thank you all for your amazing contributions to the home - from everyone at Springfield!

Congratulations to Alex MCEwan who has won this months award for picking up extra shifts! Thank you Alex 🎉🎈

Across the Springfield Healthcare Group, we have always facilitated compassionate or essential visits which has been very important to us as care providers to support all of our residents and their loved ones with kindness and dignity. We also continue to support a variety of other visits such as window, garden, visitor rooms and in-room visits, to ensure residents can stay connected with their loved ones. We asked one of our relatives to share her thoughts and experiences of having a loved one in a Springfield residential care home during the pandemic. Click the link below to read more…

Safe Visits at Springfield Care Home, Garforth

Congratulations to our Star of the Month for January 2021! 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Andy Ratcliffe Andy is always happy to help with anything and always does so with a smile on his face - thank you from everyone at Springfield Carehome

Springfield Healthcare’s new initiative continues to put mental health as much a priority as physical health. We have created Mental Health First Aid Boxes for each of our homes to provide resources and support to colleagues who may be struggling with their mental health. We want to spread awareness and ensure that staff feel able to speak our Mental Health First Aiders, to learn about many different coping mechanisms and to use a range of resources if needed. Click the link below to read more about this new initiative…

Springfield Healthcare’s Mental Health First Aid Boxes

Our lovely resident, Val, has had her hair blow-dried and makeup done this morning and would love to star on our Facebook page. How fabulous does Val look?

Residents enjoyed our activities based around the BBC Springwatch. We all had a really fun time making bird feeders and observing the beautiful birds in the garden.

We had another relaxing pamper session for our residents last week and some nail painting for our lovely ladies.

What a fun day we had yesterday at Springfield Carehome, with our very first 'Grab Your Passport!' day where residents got to virtually travel to Scotland. Our amazing wellbeing team got into the spirit with their fancy dress and our residents enjoyed trying lots of Scottish food and dancing to Scottish music. Keep an eye out next month to see where we travel to next... where do you think we will be visiting?

Jean Evans, Kitchen Manager at Springfield Carehome, has baked this football themed cake for one of our lovely residents. He loves football and was absolutely thrilled with this surprise. Thank you Jean for all your amazing work and for everything you do to make residents feel special. We would like to wish our lovely resident a very Happy Birthday, love from the Springfield family!

Thank you to all our "Incredible Colleagues at Springfield Care Home" who have gone above and beyond over the last couple of days to ensure the safety of our residents. Click the link below to read more...

Incredible Colleagues at Springfield Care Home

We would like to send a massive thank you to the GPs, Nurses and healthcare assistants from Garforth Medical Centre who visited Springfield Care Home yesterday to safely deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to both residents and staff. Click the link below to read more...

Covid-19 Vaccine Day at Springfield Care Home

We would like to send a heartfelt thank you to Marlene, a resident of the Garforth community, who recently sent us 8 boxes of food / snacks for residents and staff to enjoy. Marlene has previously worked at Springfield Carehome and said that she wanted to give something back to the home to support our staff and residents with these offerings. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Congratulations Katie Watts who won the December "pick up shifts" draw to win this months £100 voucher. Congratulations and thank you Katie!! 😊

Springfield Carehome's star of the month for December 2020 was Ginelle Baker - congratulations and thank you!!!

Our 'adopt a pet' initiative has been a great idea and residents absolutely loved looking after their own pet. These pets have been proven to have several benefits to residents living with dementia, essentially providing emotional comfort and a calming presence for residents.