Under-fire Sedgley care home closes
A Black Country care home criticised in a report by health inspectors has shut.
The Rose Villa Nursing Home, in Sedgley, was rated 'inadequate' in the report from the Care Quality Commission.
Following the inspection, on June 16 and 17 this year, bosses made the decision to shut the home.
In the report, inspectors claimed residents 'were not adequately protected from the risk of infection' and they 'did not receive a choice of meals and the quality of food provided was poor and not nutritious'.
Only one area of the nursing home's service was not rated inadequate, with the home's care being scored 'required improvement'.
A visit by inspectors was made to Rose Villa, which could care for up to 27 older people or those with physical disabilities, on October 6, 2015. They returned on April 21, this year and found that the nursing home had failed to make necessary improvements.
The latest report said: "We carried out a further focussed inspection of the service to check that the provider had made and sustained the improvements they had told us they would make.
"At this inspection, we found the provider had failed to make the improvements they told us about. We also identified some other concerns which we raised with the provider on the day."
During the first inspection, 11 people were living at the home. Inspectors found the environment appeared clean and that a domestic cleaner was on site six days a week.
But one staff member said: "There is too much work for the domestic (cleaner), he does his best, if we have a couple of minutes we will do some cleaning."
Staff had not received infection control training and were not aware of these procedures in place, inspectors also noted. A member of staff said: "I have to work in the kitchen, but I've never done food hygiene training."
Councillor Qadar Zada, Cabinet member for adult social care, said: "The council received notice from the proprietor a number of weeks ago of their intention to close the home.
"We have since worked closely with the remaining six residents and their family members to find suitable alternative accommodation."
Rose Villa shut around three weeks ago. No-one at the home was unavailable for comment.
