ENNISKILLEN care home Meadow View Senior Living has been officially taken over by a new company to enhance standards of care delivered . On Monday (April 26), Kathryn Homes took over sole responsibility for the operations of a portfolio of 12 care homes, including Meadow View, previously managed by Runwood Homes in Northern Ireland. In a press release, it was stated that a local board has been appointed to oversee the portfolio with the aim of enhancing the standards of care delivered . This announcement comes following a report by The Impartial Reporter in February of this year where it was understood that Runwood Homes was rebranding to Kathryn Homes.
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Sign Up We would expect the RQIA to have conducted monthly visits to Clifton throughout 2020 to ensure the residents were all safe. This has been going on for seven years now without any sustained improvement. This means our system of regulation is not fit for purpose. We need urgent change.
Clifton Nursing Home has repeatedly appeared in news headlines over the years for a litany of distressing failings.
Health inspectors raised concerns about infection control failings in the 12 months leading up the pandemic, while the Belfast Trust had been supporting the home for 18 months.
The RQIA then uncovered scenes of chaos inside the facility during inspections on May 15 and 21 last year.
A second former senior official from Northern Ireland s health watchdog has taken up a post at disgraced care home firm Runwood Homes, it can be revealed.
Theresa Nixon, former Director of Assurance at the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA), has been appointed to lead the Board of the company s Northern Ireland branch, which is currently undergoing a rebrand.
She joins her former colleague, Dermot Parsons, former interim chief executive of the RQIA, who is taking up the role of managing director of the firm.
Under the rebrand, the company will become known as Kathryn Homes (NI).
On Thursday night, the daughter of a resident who died after sustaining a head injury in a home owned by Runwood Homes appealed to Mr Parsons and Ms Nixon to help her uncover the truth about her mother s tragic death.