Is care home where residents had bruises set to be sold off?
A HUCKNALL care home where inspectors raised concerns about care quality could be sold.
Officers and councillors at Notts County Council say the owners of Silverdale Residential Care Home, Nottingham Road, have said they are potentially looking for a buyer.
But Jamil Akhtar, a partner at Rodenvine Nottingham, which owns Silverdale, said: "We haven't made our mind up regarding any sale.
"I don't want to sell it, it's my partner who was talking of selling. I want to get this home up and running again properly."
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Silverdale was inspected by the Care Quality Commission four times in November.
The commission said nine of the then 17 residents had sustained unexplained bruising in the five weeks before the inspection.
Other residents had not had their clothes changed for several days and some were not helped to eat, despite being unable to feed themselves.
The council has not been sending people there since November 7. There are 11 residents.
The CQC has ordered the home to act in nine areas to meet Government standards, including safeguarding people from abuse, cleanliness and infection control, management of medicines and staffing.
The home must tell the CQC what action it will take.
Rodenvine Nottingham has told the council it wants to close Havana House Care Home, Broomhill Road, Hucknall, from January 28.
Mr Akhtar said: "We've been there for four years and for the last year we've had no referrals. I don't know why."
David Hamilton, a service director at Notts County Council, said: "Rodenvine Nottingham, the owner of Havana House Care Home has informed the council that it plans to close the home at the end of January. We are working with the home, its residents and their families to find new care home places which meet the needs of the residents.
"The owning company has also advised that it is considering selling its other care home in Hucknall, Silverdale, to another care provider."
Councillors were updated on the situation at Silverdale and Havana House at a meeting of the adult social care and health committee.
Mr Hamilton said: "Havana House is due to close at the end of January. The owners contacted Notts County Council in November stating they were planning to close due to low occupancy. Only 11 out of 23 were filled."
He added: "Havana has not had its contract suspended despite CQC concerns. Silverdale is different, the county council has suspended the contract.
"The owners were intending to move residents from Havana House to Silverdale, but the county council said it wasn't appropriate. Now the owners are looking at a potential sale of Silverdale."
Councillor Chris Winterton said: "One of the things that does concern me is that bruising is constantly referred to by the CQC.
"This is happening a lot and I think we need to take the initiative to prevent bruising."
Following the meeting, committee chairman and Hucknall councillor Kevin Rostance said: "We are still working at Silverdale on a daily basis to ensure the residents are being well looked after, especially if it is up for sale.
"We will be monitoring it all the way, along with the CQC, to ensure a smooth transition if a sale goes ahead."
There are a further nine privately-run homes in Hucknall.
Comments
by thetindog
Sunday, February 03 2013, 2:04AM
“My mother, who had been a resident at Havana House since May 2008 was told on the 8 January 2013 by the owners that they were closing the home and that she had to move by the 1 February 2013.
Only a week later she contacted me saying that she had to move out by 18 January 2013. This is only 10 days notice. I believe that she was entitled to 28 days notice. She did not receive any written notification of this from the owners.
In addition, she is currently self funding and has paid her fees for the whole month of January but so far has received no indication that the fees for 19-31 January are going to be returned to her by the owners.
Following her move to another care home on 18 January 2013 several of her personal belongings including an expensive piece of furniture which was a gift from her family, have not been forwarded from Havana House to her new home.
I feel quite strongly that there are a number of questions here that need to be answered by the owners concerning this matter and that Notts County Council should investigate the situation.”
by icarehome
Thursday, January 24 2013, 3:07PM
“Stories like this are all too common and expose the challenges of finding good standard care homes for older people. One strategy that could be adopted by the friends and relatives of older people living in care homes that don't meet essential standards is to help them switch to homes that provide decent services that treat people with dignity and respect. If we all did this, the poor homes would soon go out of business and the quality homes would flourish.”
by wortho48
Thursday, January 10 2013, 1:13PM
“I have not heard of Silverdale care home but I do know of Havana House and up until about 12 years ago this was a very happy well run care home whilst in the ownership of Mrs Linda Downes along with her sister home Glendora House on Herbert Road Sherwood Rise which was later to become the Orchid after along with Havana Mrs Downes sold the properties after this I am sorry to say it was downhill all the way staff were dismissed in the change over and foreign staff employed mostly Filipino Pakistani and Polish , standards dropped in care of the elderly in the cleanliness of the home in residents care plans it all became one mess and Glendora [The Orchid] ended up in administration I returned to The orchid in the last Five months of it trading to do their cooking for them and I was totally shocked to see this once happy building in such a shocking state and cannot understand for the life of me why Social Services kept residents their in such conditions and being looked after by staff whose English was not good how were the elderly supposed to understand what was being said to them ... they did not it was not good but it did have a manager who himself was a Filipino and his English was good but his hands had been tied by the owner who I believe was Indian and the administrators . But all this with Silverwood and Havana House nothing has changed within the care home residential sector in the Five years since The Orchid closed its doors things are exactly the same and the CQC is paid all this money well I think its time they woke up and sorted this big mess out along with help from Social Services . My rant of the day over .”