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Ashbourne Care Home

Lightwood Road, Dudley, DY1 2RS

Requires improvementpublished 8 March 2024, 2 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The five questions inspectors ask
Safe?
Requires improvement
Are people protected from harm? Staffing, medicines, infection control, safeguarding.
Effective?
Requires improvement
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Requires improvement
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Requires improvement
Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?
Requires improvement
Is the service run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.
The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Ashbourne Care Home. That is usual for a newly registered service.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Ashbourne Care Home

Each visit the CQC has published, newest first, back to the day the service was registered.

  1. March 2024Requires improvementcurrent rating
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. March 2021Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated
  3. March 2024

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 22 March 2024.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission. A service can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections, not every contact the CQC has had with the service.

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