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Chimnies Residential Care Home

Chimnies, Stoke Road, Allhallows, Rochester, ME3 9PD

Requires improvementpublished 1 September 2022, 3 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?
Good
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Good
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

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The CQC published its most recent report on Chimnies Residential Care Home on 1 September 2022. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

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The story over the years

Every inspection of Chimnies Residential Care Home

5 rated inspections over 6 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. September 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. March 2022Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate

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  3. November 2020Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

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  4. March 2020Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  5. July 2017Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  6. June 2016Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  7. March 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. January 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. February 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  10. March 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 10 March 2011.

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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