A NUNEATON construction firm has secured a s1.4 million contract for a major expansion project at an East Midlands hospice.
Ian Neale Construction Group was awarded the contract by the Leicestershire and Rutland Organisation for the Relief Of Suffering (LOROS), which runs the Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice in Leicester.
Over the next year the firm will build a single storey extension which will provide 11 new en-suite bedrooms, ancillary rooms, a new courtyard area, a link corridor to the existing building, landscaping and external works.
LOROS Chief Executive Michael Archer said one of the key aims of the project was to give patients more privacy.
He said: At the moment we have 31 beds at the hospice but only eight of these are in single rooms. With this extension we will have the capacity for 11 more patient rooms, bringing the total to 19.
Although the scheme wont allow us to increase the number of beds at the hospice it will mean that more than half our patients will have their own single rooms over the years this is something which time and time again has been expressed as important to our patients and their families.
As well as allowing for more privacy, it will also enable us to be more responsive to the individual needs of our patients, and to respond to GPs requirements to admit patients any time of the day or night, without disturbing others here at the hospice.
Builders moved on site at the beginning of this month and the work is expected to be complete by the end of August 2009.
Paul Roberts, group managing director of Ian Neale Construction Group, said: We are extremely pleased to have been awarded this contract by LOROS which plays a vital role for families in the Leicestershire and Rutland community. We look forward to delivering a quality project which will serve the area for years to come.
The buildings existing facilities have been constructed and maintained to an extremely high standard and we are delighted to be working with LOROS on such a major project which will compliment the hospices existing environment.
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