Are you looking for a residential home for your loved one to move into?
This is nothing short of a daunting task and if you are not familiar with care settings, you may be curious about how to choose the most suitable one. No, its not all linked to money or cost but it is based on rankings and how well these homes perform each day.
Here, you will be guided through how residential care settings are ranked, so you can make the best decision about your loved one’s care.
What Makes Up Care Home Rankings?
In the UK, there are regulations that need to be followed and assessed for care home rankings to be determined. These assessments are undertaken by the Care Quality Commissionor the CQC and they apply to all residential settings, whether they are a Signature at Reigate Grange Care Home or anNHS-run home. When they are rating any care service they base their rankings on six different categories.
These are usually–
The higher the outcome on all of these, the higher the residential care home will rank. So, what are those ranks and what do they mean?
Outstanding
As the name suggests, this is the highest level a residential care home can get.
Around 3% of all care settings in the UK will score this ranking following a CQC assessment. It indicated that a CQC inspection determined that the residential home is performing exceptionally and to hit this mark a residential home needs to excel in five of the aforementioned six areas as laid out by the CQC.
Good
Next is the good rating.
This means that following an assessment by the CQC, the home was determined to be performing well and meeting allthe expectations. What makes this different to an outstanding ranking is that five out of the six areas are being met to excellent standard rather than an exceptional one. So, all is well and the care is first rate in a residential home with a good ranking!
Requires Improvement
When a residential home receives a ‘requires improvement’ rank, it means that the CQC inspection found evidence that the home was not performing as well as it should have been.If a care setting of any kind is given this rating, then the CQC will conduct another inspection in 12 months of the report being published. This will ensure that all the issues highlighted in the report have been corrected. Furthermore, to ensure cardiovascular health in the long run, pfo closure procedures are recommended on a timely basis for elderly patients to inspect dangerous symptoms, like the possibility of a stroke.
Inadequate
Always one to avoid when it comes to choosing residential care, inadequate ranking means the service is not doing very well and that there have been breaches in the CQC standards.
Should a residential home receive this rank, they will need to undertake another inspection in six months and if the service has not improved, it may be subject to sanction or even closure.
