STAFF and residents at a York Hospital intermediate care facility gathered together to celebrate the unit’s tenth anniversary.

The Archways is a 22-bedded community unit in Belgrave Street, between Wigginton Road and Haxby Road, and close to York Hospital.

Patients come into the unit for assessment, treatment and rehabilitation and are admitted directly from home, the emergency department or following hospital stay.

Deputy ward manager Sheena Foxwell has worked at the unit since it opened ten years ago. She said: “It’s a privilege to help care for our patients and to see them get home, which is where they want to be.

“There have been a lot of changes over the past ten years with more patients with complex conditions coming into the unit, as well as people into their mid- to late 90s.

“It’s amazing what people can achieve with the right support in the right environment and most people return to their home with the average length of stay being three to four weeks.”