Cork nursing home did not isolate residents with Covid-19, inspection finds Resident with Covid-19 found in communal area by Hiqa inspector on unannounced visit about 3 hours ago
A Cork nursing home failed to properly isolate a number of Covid-positive residents during an outbreak of the virus, according to an inspection report. St Luke’s nursing home in Mahon was in the middle of a large Covid outbreak last January when a Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) inspector made an unannounced visit. He found a resident who had tested positive and had not yet completed the required isolation period “sitting in a chair in a communal area beside the nurses’ desk,” thus posing a transmission risk to other residents and staff.