The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told Rose Brae Nursing and Residential Home, Bebbington, Wirral that it must make improvements to protect the safety and welfare of people living there.
CQC carried out an unannounced inspection at the home in February and March 2016 – it was a follow up to a previous unannounced comprehensive inspection of this service on 10 and 11 September 2015. Inspectors found that the providers, Rose Brae Nursing Home Limited, were failing to provide care which was safe, effective, caring, responsive or well led. The home has been rated Inadequate overall and placed into special measures.
During this visit, inspectors identified continued concerns with the safety and quality of the service. Medicines were not always administered safely, when they were received by the home they were not always properly accounted for and people did not always receive the medications they needed when they needed them. This meant the management of medications was unsafe.
People did not always receive adequate nutrition and hydration. One person was fed an inappropriate diet for some of their meals which increased their risk of a choking episode. Bed rails and bed bumpers were in use but the bed rail bumpers did not fit the full length of the person’s bed. This meant there were gaps that the person’s head or limb could have become entrapped in.
The temperature of hot water in people’s rooms was either lukewarm or a scalding risk. No effective check of the water temperature was undertaken to ensure it was safe. This placed people at risk of harm. The provider also failed to have proper systems in place to monitor the risk of the water being contaminated with Legionella. This was despite, being told of the inadequacy of the current system at the last inspection.
A full report is to be found at: www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-1543719565
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North, said:
“The care my inspectors saw being provided at Rose Brae Nursing and Residential Home falls along way short of what we expect services to provide. It is unacceptable that the provider has failed to protect the safety and welfare of people living in the home. Some of the faults were long-standing, it is a matter of concern that the faults identified with the water system during a previous inspection was still posing a potential risk to people.
“People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care and we have told the provider that they must take action as a priority.
“We have been working with Wirral Council to ensure that people living at the home are not at undue risk. We will continue to monitor this care home. We have placed this service in special measures – and we are considering taking enforcement action and will report on this action when it is completed.”
Any regulatory decision that CQC takes is open to challenge by a registered person through a variety of internal and external appeal processes.
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Read reports from our checks on the standards at Rose Brae Nursing and Residential Home