The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told Baybury Ltd, the owner of The Orchards Care Home, Bradford that it must make improvements to protect the safety and welfare of people living there.
CQC carried out an inspection in April and May 2016. Inspectors found that the providers, Baybury Ltd, were failing to provide care which was safe, effective, caring, responsive or well led. The home has been rated Inadequate overall and placed into special measures.
The inspection team found that medicines were not managed safely and there were insufficient staff to safely meet the needs of people living at the home. Staff recruitment procedures did not protect people and environmental safety and infection control procedures were insufficient and put people at risk.
Hygiene and infection control was of a poor standard. Inspectors visited eight bedrooms and found liquid hand wash available in only two of the rooms. None of the rooms had any paper towels available. This meant procedures were not in place for effective infection control as staff did not have appropriate hand washing facilities available to them.
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North, said:
“We found the care provided at The Orchards Care Home was of a very poor standard and fell a long way short of the level we expect services to provide.
“Management within the home lacked proper oversight. For example a number of lights were not working in people's bedrooms and in both communal bathrooms.
“Call bells had been tied up in a number of areas including bedrooms and communal bathrooms. This meant people would not be able to reach the call bells to alert staff if they had fallen or required attention.
“CQC have intervened to keep people using this service safe. People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care and we have told the provider that they must take action as a priority.
“We have been working with Bradford Council to ensure that people living at the home are not at undue risk. Services in special measures will be kept under review and we will not hesitate to use our enforcement powers if standards fall further.”
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