Kimmeridge Ward
- Poole Hospital
- level 0 in the YELLOW ZONE (A): View map
This is a medical ward for elderly patients. There are 34 beds with 4 side rooms with en-suite bathrooms, and there are 5 bays of 6 beds.
The ward is open 7 days a week.
Contact us
Ward staff : 0300 019 8346
Telephone enquiries
Please arrange, where possible, for only one named person to phone the ward to make enquiries and to relay the information to other relatives and friends. Please note confidential information can never be given over the telephone. If you would like to speak to a Doctor, this can be arranged, please speak to a member of the staff to arrange.
Your Bedside Unit
When you reach your hospital bed, just follow the instructions on the bedside screen to get yourself set up on the TV. It only takes a few moments and then you're all set. To use our services, you will need to create an account first. If you have problems getting started, just pick up your bedside phone to speak to our Customer Care Team. This is always a FREE call from the bedside, and our Advisors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Clothes
We encourage all our patients to wear day clothes during the daytime. This promotes their dignity and helps them to return to normal routines as soon as possible. Please assist us in this by ensuring you/your relative has a supply of easy-to-wear day clothes.
Personal belongings
We advise that personal belongings of high value or large sums of money are not brought into the ward. The hospital does not take responsibility for the safety of belongings for those patients who wish to keep them with them unless handed in and a receipt obtained. A hospital safe is available for those patients who do not have relatives to take these items home or who are unable to consent to taking responsibility for their possessions. We ask that if you take an item home from your relative than please inform the nursing staff so that this can be recorded.
Visiting times
We have set visiting times from 10:00-20:00 to allow us to provide care and for our patients to rest. These times may be varied in exceptional circumstances. To arrange this, or if you wish to participate in your relative's care or assist them at mealtimes, please speak to the staff nurse in charge.
