Background to this inspection
Updated
4 February 2022
We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
As part of CQC’s response to care homes with outbreaks of COVID-19, we are conducting reviews to ensure that the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practice is safe and that services are compliant with IPC measures. This was a targeted inspection looking at the IPC practices the provider has in place. We also asked the provider about any staffing pressures the service was experiencing and whether this was having an impact on the service.
This inspection took place on 18 January 2022 and was announced. We gave the service 24 hours' notice of the inspection.
Updated
4 February 2022
About the service
Meadowview Care Home is a care home that provides accommodation for up to 41 people who need assistance with their personal care. At the time of the inspection 41 people lived at the service. Some people at the home, lived with dementia.
People’s experience of using this service and what we found
People told us they felt safe and were treated well. Risks to people were assessed and their safety was monitored. People were safeguarded from the risk of abuse. Staff were knowledgeable about the different types of abuse and followed guidance in line with the providers and the local authority safeguarding procedures.
People and relatives were very positive about the staff and manager. They told us they were happy with the care provided.
Medicines were safely managed by staff with up to date training and necessary skills. Medication audits had been reviewed and actions taken where improvements had been identified.
Staff followed safe infection, prevention and control (IPC) practices. They had access to the required personal protective equipment (PPE) used to prevent infections and keep people safe.
Safe recruitment processes were followed to assess the suitability of staff to work at the service. Staff had received regular training to ensure they were able to meet the needs of the people they supported.
People were supported to have maximum choice and control of their lives and staff supported them in the least restrictive way possible and in their best interests; the policies and systems in the service supported this practice.
Improvements were noted to the systems and processes for monitoring the quality and safety of the service. This included improvements to records, the management of medications and the environment. Further development was needed to continue the refurbishment and decoration of the home and continuation of the development of all care records.
For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Rating at last inspection and update
The last rating for this service was good published 30 January 2019.
You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for ‘Meadowview Care Home' at website at www.cqc.org.uk
Why we inspected
We received concerns from the local authority in relation to the management of medicines. As a result, we undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well led only, We reviewed the information we held about the service. No areas of concern were identified in the other key questions. We therefore did not inspect them. Ratings from previous comprehensive inspections for those key questions were used in calculating the overall rating at this inspection.
We looked at infection prevention and control measures under the Safe key question. We look at this in all care home inspections even if no concerns or risks have been identified. This is to provide assurance that the service can respond to coronavirus and other infection outbreaks effectively.
The overall rating for the service has remained good. This is based on the findings at this inspection.