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A healing garden will be life changing for our Critical care patients.
Early rehabilitation in critical illness has shown to be incredibly important. Inside a Critical Care Unit, patients can lose all sense of time and place as day blends into night and they stare at the same four walls for weeks on end.
Our garden will be a place for healing and rehabilitation, not only physical but for the mental and emotional self too. Smelling different scents, the sound of the breeze through the leaves and maybe some water features.
It gives people a grounding and a reminder of what they have to aim for to keep them pushing through their recovery and rehabilitation.
There is no truer saying than the Healing power of nature and no more so than in Cornwall where our patients are used to the outdoor life and being surrounded by this beauty daily.
We want to make sure being in critical care doesn't take that opportunity away from our patients for long.