A non-public care house is to shut with council officers working to seek out new lodging for its 18 residents.
The Ashwood Lodge Care House on Bedale Avenue, Billingham will shut, it has been confirmed. It’s nonetheless unknown when the closure will happen or what preparations are being made concerning the house’s employees.
Councillor Ann McCoy, Stockton Council’s cupboard member for grownup social care, mentioned: “Ashwood Lodge Care House’s supplier, Nationwide Healthcare Ltd, have notified us of their intention to shut the house and we can be working with the house’s 18 residents and their households to seek out appropriate different lodging to satisfy their wants.
“Our major precedence is to help residents and their members of the family throughout this tough time. We can be doing this with the utmost sensitivity to residents’ wants while working carefully with Nationwide Healthcare Ltd.”
Issues have been raised concerning the house, which cares for individuals over 65 and folks with dementia and has a ranking from regulator Care High quality Fee (CQC) of “good”, final week. Ashwood Lodge Ltd, an organization carrying the house’s tackle and offering “residential care actions for the aged and disabled”, was dissolved on Tuesday, January 17.
In line with Firms Home, this firm was integrated in August final 12 months. An utility to strike the corporate off the register was made on September 30 and a discover that the corporate could be struck off the register was given on October 11.
The Native Democracy Reporting Service approached the house concerning the matter, and was informed the dissolved firm had nothing to do with the care house. It was mentioned the corporate by no means ran the house, it was opened because it was set to purchase the house, however the sale fell by and the agency was closed. Calls to a solicitors’ agency listed because the correspondence tackle for the administrators of the defunct Ashwood Lodge firm have been met with fax or modem tones.
It was claimed following queries final week the house was not in any monetary hazard and was nonetheless operating as earlier than. Stockton Council has since confirmed the house was to shut.
The care supplier, Nationwide Healthcare Ltd primarily based in Gosforth, has been integrated since 2004 and is listed on Firms Home as nonetheless energetic and proving residential nursing care services. The NHS and CQC web sites verify that Nationwide Healthcare runs Ashwood Lodge Care House, and its contact particulars are listed because the care house.
The house has been contacted once more for remark, with a response that the corporate was working with the native authority for the perfect pursuits of employees and residents, with the council serving to to seek out locations for residents and potential jobs for workers.
