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Elm House Care Home

Lime Grove, Skelmersdale, WN8 8ET

Goodpublished 29 July 2025, 13 months ago

Rated Good: inspectors found the service performing well and meeting their expectations.

The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on Elm House Care Home on 2 December 2023. 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 Elm House Care Home

3 rated inspections over 4 years: the service has held its Requires improvement rating throughout.

  1. December 2023Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  2. July 2021Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodWell-led: Good

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  3. August 2019Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  4. July 2018

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 10 July 2018.

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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