Changing Times in 'The Marillac'
Times they are
a-changing at 'The Marillac' Nursing Home in Warley, Essex.
The photo below shows the new management team which has been
formed within the past few months:
Sister Bridie Dowd
DC, Managing Director (left), Sheree Rowland, Director of Finance
(centre)and Wendy Chan, Director of Nursing Services (right).
The Marillac
Nursing Home is situated in attractive grounds close to
The
beginnings of The Marillac go back to the 1920s, when a ‘manse’
standing in 12 acres of woodland near the barracks of the 3rd
Battalion of the Essex Regiment, was bought by the Daughters of
Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. In 1956 the North East Metropolitan
Hospital Board asked the Daughters of Charity to take young chronic
sick patients. Various plans were considered for a more solid
building with modern amenities for this type of patient.
Eventually
the present Marillac was
bought when the Essex Regiment moved its headquarters to
In 1994
The Marillac underwent a refurbishment programme to update the
accommodation and services. Today The Marillac is a Nursing
Home for 50 men and women with physical disabilities who require
twenty four hour care.