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ABOUT US
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Here’s what makes Knox
Elizabeth Knox Home and Hospital is a Charitable Trust with over 110 years of caring for the Auckland community just the way founder Elizabeth Knox envisioned when she left her bequest in 1908.
Today, Knox is home to about 280+ subsidised and fee-paying private residents.
We offer rest home, hospital, young disabled, day and respite cares, carer support, post-operative stays and palliative care.
We know life for our residents can be much, much more than may be considered possible elsewhere. There are many small differences at Knox that make a big difference to the lives of residents. Primarily, we’ve challenged the structure of traditional care homes and hospitals.
The Knox Way
The Knox Way care model is a working partnership with our residents, Knox team members, and resident families, where we support and enable residents to continue discovering their fullest potential and to ensure our residents are central to everything we do.
"I haven't had one unhappy moment."
Not one.
Joy spent most of her life in a quiet and remote part of the Gisborne district. East coast landscapes were always an inspiration for her creativity but she didn’t always have the time or encouragement to paint. Now she loves the opportunity to make the most of her creative talents with other residents, staff and volunteers.
The transition to life in Auckland has been much easier than she thought it could be – Knox is just so homely. She has both the inspiration and freedom to do so much that she is never bored. Joy may be helping migrants learn English one day, a day out, the next.
Knox Values
We value:
• inclusion of people of all ages and abilities
• kindness to one another
• tolerance of differences
• fairness
• personal responsibility and engagement in the life of the Knox Community
• variety and spontaneity
• the principles of partnership with Maori.
And we celebrate and honour the diversity of the many cultures that make up the Knox community
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We ensure that
• we work as a team
• we embrace change with optimism
• we promote well-being
• we reciprocate care
• we are hardworking and productive
• we are reliable
• we are curious and innovative
• we laugh and have fun.