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Asmall Hall, Scarisbrick, Ormskirk.

Asmall Hall in Scarisbrick, Ormskirk is a Nursing home specialising in the provision of services relating to accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care, caring for adults over 65 yrs, caring for adults under 65 yrs, dementia, physical disabilities and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 23rd January 2020

Asmall Hall is managed by Benridge Care Homes Limited who are also responsible for 2 other locations

Contact Details:

    Address:
      Asmall Hall
      Asmall Lane
      Scarisbrick
      Ormskirk
      L40 8JL
      United Kingdom
    Telephone:
      01695579548

Ratings:

For a guide to the ratings, click here.

Safe: Requires Improvement
Effective: Requires Improvement
Caring: Good
Responsive: Requires Improvement
Well-Led: Requires Improvement
Overall:

Further Details:

Important Dates:

    Last Inspection 2020-01-23
    Last Published 2018-11-27

Local Authority:

    Lancashire

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Inspection Reports:

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4th July 2018 - During a routine inspection pdf icon

We inspected Asmall Hall on the 4, 5, 6 and 9 July 2018. The first day of the inspection was unannounced. This is the first inspection of Asmall hall under the new provider Benridge Care Homes Limited. Benridge Care Homes own two other care homes in the Southport area.

Asmall Care home is a large country manor type home set in its own grounds. The home is over two floors and supports people with nursing and residential care needs. There are two units one on each side of the home with their bedroom accommodation to the ground and first floor. One unit supports people with nursing and residential needs and the other supports people with nursing needs and people living with dementia.

Each unit has its own large lounge and dining room and there is a second quiet room on each unit.

There is a large kitchen providing food across the home and a large laundry in the annex to the side of the main building.

The home can support up to 56 people and at the time of the inspection there were 36 people living in the home. The new provider has undertaken a large investment programme updating and refurbishing the whole building. At the time of the inspection there were further works planned following planning permission.

Asmall Hall is a ‘care home’. People in care homes receive accommodation and nursing or personal care as single package under one contractual agreement. CQC regulates both the premises and the care provided, and both were looked at during this inspection.

At the time of the inspection Asmall Hall had a current registered manager who was also the nominated individual. Following the inspection the nominated individual role was taken on by a director from the provider's company. The provider was currently recruiting to the registered managers post so the current manager could revert to managing another of their services. The provider’s third service was also looking for a registered manager to allow for each service to be managed by its own dedicated manager registered with the Care Quality Commission. A recommendation has been added to the report to prompt the provider to do this as soon as possible. A registered manager is a person who has registered with the Care Quality Commission to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.

The provider had begun to manage the service following the last CQC inspection of the home. The last inspection under the previous provider, rated the home as inadequate. The registered manager had been involved in the quality improvement programme implemented following the findings of the last inspection as many areas of concern were identified.

The new provider had bought the home as an ongoing business concern and had completed all the legal obligations of transferring staff from the previous provider to become an employee of Benridge care homes if they so wished. They had also recruited many new staff. We found recruitment procedures were fair and equitable. However, we were aware that the recruitment of staff had been difficult. This is in part because of the location of the home. We found the provider had been unable to suitably recruit enough staff with the competence and skills to deliver the nursing element of the service in line with the requirements of the regulations. We have found the service in breach of Regulation 12, safe care and treatment.

We have also found that suitable risk management plans had not been implemented. We identified risks which had not been addressed prior to their identification at the inspection. We also found where risks had been identified appropriate risk management plans had not been put in place. We found a further breach to Regulation 12, safe care and treatment, for the assessment and management of risk.

Care plans were in a period of development

 

 

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