Woodlands Care Home, Mirfield,Huddersfield,Ian.
Speciality Care Limited, ( REIT Homes )
Responsible Person Maureen Royston.
This home is under the general banner of Four Seasons.
This is Maureen Claire Royston,MD,etc. Big figure at FSHC.
Link thanks to Karl Womack.
Home rated as inadequate and placed in special measures, latest CQC Inspection Report Inadequate in Three Key Areas,Requiring Improvement in two more. Fourth consecutive non compliant inspection report. Six out of nine inspection reports non compliant. No new admissions.
Just another failing care home in a high incidence area. Been going on since 2002 around, Huddersfield, Halifax,Kirklees.
Nothing improves, or if it does not for long.
Patient records were falsified and staff used derogatory language at a failing Mirfield care home.
Woodlands Care Home in Sands Lane has been placed in special measures after being rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The home, to 55 people during the inspection in December, was given the lowest rating for its safety, management and its compassion towards patients.
It was given amber ‘requires improvement’ ratings by the government health watchdog for effectiveness and responsiveness.
The report said: “Although some staff treated people with kindness and compassion, showing respect for their privacy and dignity, other staff did not.
“Some staff used derogatory terms and spoke over people to each other.
“Some staff failed to recognise when people’s dignity was being compromised.”
The report noted other safety and dignity issues.
It said: “People were not always provided with safe care and treatment.
“Some people were not assisted to move regularly and some people did not receive adequate assistance to meet their continence needs.”
CQC inspectors found that residents’ care records were incomplete – and some had been ‘falsified.’
The report said: “Some care records were inaccurate and incomplete and, in some cases, records were falsified. Audits were not robust and did not identify some areas for improvement.”
The report said: “Admissions to ‘Thornhill’ had been suspended by the local authority due to safeguarding concerns on this unit in relation to staffing, the role of one to one staff and the management of medicines.”
The CQC raised concerns about staffing shortages at the home.
The report said: “Despite a dependency tool being used to help determine staff numbers, there were not always sufficient numbers of staff to meet people’s needs.”
A spokesperson for Woodlands Care Home said: “The wellbeing of people entrusted to our care is our priority and we are sorry that Woodlands Care Home has fallen below the standards that we expect all of our homes to provide.
“We are implementing a comprehensive programme of improvements that is being overseen by our home manager supported by the regional senior management team working in close liaison with Kirklees Council and the Care Quality Commission.
“We have also held meetings with residents and relatives to tell them about the improvement programme.
“Before the inspection we had already identified areas where we needed to improve.”
