Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Superior Healthcare provides personalised, nurse-led home care for individuals with spinal muscular atrophy, assisting children, young people, and adults to live well and independently.
Superior Healthcare provides personalised, nurse-led home care for individuals with spinal muscular atrophy, assisting children, young people, and adults to live well and independently.
Our nurse-led team offers tailored home care for children, young people, and adults – as well as respite for families. Whether it’s day, night, or 24-hour nursing care, we can help. We offer:
The children we support enjoy visiting hydrotherapy pools and attending school with our specialist carers and nurses. We have also helped many young people access college and university.
We collaborate with third parties to help clients and families by adapting their homes to maintain a comfortable temperature and installing necessary equipment, such as hospital beds and hoists as mobility needs change.
Nurse managers work with multidisciplinary teams, including neuromuscular physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, and speech and language therapists, to regularly reassess the care plan and implement new care strategies as needed.
We work with children, young people, and adults living with spinal muscular atrophy, adapting clinical and social care support as needed. The clinical interventions we can provide include:
Ezra is a young boy who was born with spinal muscular atrophy type 1. He loves space and can tell you what Saturn’s rings are made up of. At school, he enjoys playing with his friends.
He has nursing care around the clock – a team of paediatric nurses that support him so that he can go to school, and they look after him at night while his parents are asleep.
Superior Healthcare was founded in 2006, following our CEO’s own experience of locating a care package to support his brother, Alex, who sustained a traumatic brain injury at age 11.
Having experienced firsthand the importance of high-quality, compassionate, and consistent complex care, we are driven to ensure that everyone – including people living with spinal muscular atrophy – can live a fulfilled life, with fun, dignity, independence, and choice.
Our StoryAre you or a loved one living with spinal muscular atrophy?
If your care is funded by an NHS ICB, a county council, or a Case Manager or Financial Deputy, we can discuss transferring your care to Superior Healthcare.
Let us help you. To get started, make a referral or call us on 01227 774873
Superior Healthcare supports people and their families who are self-funding care or using a personal health budget.
If your care package is commissioned by an NHS ICB, a county council, or by a Case Manager or Financial Deputy, we can talk to them about moving to us today.
To enquire about the cost of a package, click ‘Make a referral’ or call us at 01227 774873.
Our team members receive a five-day, in-depth, classroom-based training syllabus with practical workshops before being introduced to our clients.
The training covers all aspects of the Care Certificate and includes detailed instruction on the skills required to support complex client needs, such as tracheostomy management and gastrostomy.
Our care and nursing teams supporting individuals with spinal muscular atrophy receive client-specific training tailored to each person’s unique needs. This training continues as the individual’s care evolves.
All the employees we recruited to support people with spinal muscular atrophy are experienced, qualified and compassionate.
Click ‘Make a referral’ or call us at 01227 774873.
Superior Healthcare is regulated and rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission.
Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare, neuromuscular condition. It causes progressive muscle wasting and weakness. It may affect crawling and walking ability, arm, hand, head and neck movement, breathing and swallowing. How severely people are affected, and in what way, varies greatly. (Source: Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK)
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