Long Term Rehabilitation Low Secure Hospital Care
Darwin Ward is a 17-bedded unit. It offers treatment and rehabilitation programmes for patients with complex needs and risk profiles that requires slow pace rehabilitation setting them on a road to recovery; ultimately in preparation for a life in the community.
The philosophy of Darwin Ward is to promote activities on and off the ward to enhance personal, social and living skills. Its principles are based on recovery in all aspects of patient care and treatment. The wellbeing of patients is a priority that in turn creates a positive environment.
Darwin Ward involves the patient and opens new beginnings for them.
Patient Profile
- The individual will have had a minimum of continuous or intermittent periods of hospitalisation for at least two years
- Has dependency needs or ongoing issues of risk that require continued management in hospital for at least a further three years
- Has a high risk of absconding from non-secure settings and/or who present a level of dangerousness appropriate to conditions of low security
- Lacks motivation
- Poor openness to psychological and psychosocial interventions
- Prominent negative symptoms
- The individual displays a limited level of functioning
- Evidence of institutionalisation
