Welcome to Fort Horsted Nursing Home

Fort Horsted opened in 1990. Fort Horsted has been extended in phases since its opening. Located on a quiet cul-de-sac within easy reach of Rochester, Chatham and Maidstone town centres, it has the benefit of main bus routes and easy access to the M2 motorway. The Home is set over 1 floor with spacious communal areas, and in addition to that has a patio area and lawned areas to the front and rear of the property.

The Home aims to provide high quality personalised nursing care to meet the needs of the individual whilst encouraging choice and independence in a friendly, relaxed and homely environment.

If you or your loved one is considering the need for nursing care, please feel free to contact the Home or visit to see what they can offer. Fort Horsted Nursing Home look forward to welcoming you.

Home Manager – Obafemi Shoyombo

Obafemi has been working at Fort Horsted as the home manager since February 2025, Obafemi has a wealth of experience within the health and social care sector and as a registered home manager, Obafemi has a passion for ensuring that all our residents at Fort Horsted live a comfortable and fulfilled life. Obafemi is looking forward to moving the service forward and ensuring Fort Horsted offer the best care.

Deupty Manager – Katrina Hemphill

Katrina has been working at Fort Horsted since 2013 and has worked her way up to Deputy Manager. Katrina is a Registered Nurse and has many years of experience behind her. Katrina has a passion and love for nursing, especially end of life care. Katrina always has the residents’ needs at the forefront of her care delivery and supports the nursing and care team in ensuring that Fort Horsted offers the highest standard of care possible.

Address

Fort Horsted Nursing Home
Primrose Close
Chatham
Kent
ME4 6HZ

Care Home Manager

Email: managerfhnh@crownwoodhealthcare.com
Telephone: 01634 505 405

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Location

Services

Nursing

Fort Horsted Nursing Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide nursing and palliative care for 30 residents with varying levels of dependency. We are also able to provide continuing care and respite care. All our residents are assessed prior to admission to understand their individual and unique needs and offered a room accordingly within the Home. As such, we do not have designated areas for different categories of need.

When it is required, staff at the Fort Horsted can and do access support from a wide multi-disciplinary team such as, but not limited to, the Community Matrons Team, the Intermediate Care Team, Occupational and Physiotherapy, the Hospice Team, Dieticians, Speech and Language Therapists, Tissue Viability Nurses, the Falls Clinic, Podiatrists and the Respiratory Team.

We have a local General Practitioners (GPs) surgery that service and visit our Home regularly and are happy to register new residents but as a matter of positive choice, residents may remain within the care of their current doctor.

We are proud to be using technology to improve our quality of care. We have transitioned all of our care plans for our residents over to an electronic care plan and daily recording system called PCS (person centred software). This is enabling our staff to record more accurate information regarding our residents’ care at the point of care delivery in a much quicker and more efficient manner, meaning our staff have more time in each shift to spend “on the floor” attending to our residents needs.

Catering

At Fort Horsted we partner and work with Apetito to ensure our residents all benefit from delicious and nutritious meals every single day of the week.

We offer all of our residents three fulsome meals a day; breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks and refreshments throughout the day. We are proud to provide a meal time offering whereby our breakfast, lunch and dinner options are hot cooked meals. We offer a variety of dishes to choose from on our menu each day for each meal. The Home has a seasonal menu, which works on a 4-weekly cycle. By partnering with apetito we are helping to improve the health and wellbeing of our service users; we can ensure that all of our meals smell, look and taste fantastic as well as ensuring that the nutritional content of each meal is tailored to the dietary and health needs of each service user. Our food is served to our service users fresh and hot from our Bain Marie hot trolleys, and can meet the dietary requirements of modified and allergen free diets.

Hairdressing, Chiropody and Newspapers

We have a hairdresser who visits the home regularly for any resident who would like their hair done. We also have a chiropodist who visits on a regular basis and we can arrange for any resident to have newspapers delivered daily. Residents pay for these additional services if they would like them.

Facilities

  • Security access into premises

  • Nurse call system throughout Home

  • 3-way and 4-way profiling beds and airflow mattresses for all resident bedrooms

  • En-Suite Rooms

  • Bathrooms Equipped with Parker Baths

  • General hoists with numerous slings and bath slings

  • Communal areas – lounge and Dining Room

  • Accessible gardens and patio areas

  • Tablets for use in social interaction sessions

  • Bain Marie hot trolleys to ensure fresh and hot delivery of our Appetito Meals

  • Use of Electronic Care Planning System PCS

  • Television points (available in most rooms)

  • Free WiFi available throughout the Home

  • Large Car Park

Visiting

We have an open-door policy and welcome guests at any time that suits the resident. Relatives may also dine with residents by prior arrangement and we are happy to serve tea and coffee on request.

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Sample Menu

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