Nursing Homes in Rushden

Rushden has 3 CQC registered nursing homes. 1 is rated Good, 2 Requires improvement. All 3 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

Choosing a Nursing Home in Rushden and What to Look For

When most of the list has been told to improve

Where two of three homes have been asked to improve, the reports carry most of the weight in a decision. Rushden Park and Higham House Nursing Home are both rated Requires Improvement, so read each report for the particular areas inspectors raised, then ask the manager what has changed, when it changed and what evidence there is for it. Avenue House Nursing and Care Home holds a Good rating, and its report will name its own strengths. Check the date of every inspection, since a judgement can be a few years old and a home may now be in a different position.

The checks that matter in nursing care

A registered nursing home must have a qualified nurse on duty at all hours, so ask how many nurses and carers cover each shift, how vacancies and sickness are filled and how much agency cover is relied on. Ask how pressure care, continence support, swallowing difficulties and medication reviews are managed, and how quickly a general practitioner or district nurse attends when someone becomes unwell. Ask to see a sample care plan and the recent activity programme. Visit twice if you can, once by arrangement and once at a quieter hour, and watch how people needing help to eat are supported.

Arranging the Assessment and Settling the Funding

How the assessment works

A nursing placement normally rests on an assessment of need followed by a financial assessment. The first is free, open to anyone who asks, and records the help required with mobility, medication, nursing tasks and the daily routine. Ask North Northamptonshire Council Adult Social Care to carry it out and to arrange the financial assessment alongside it, since homes will want to read the outcome before offering a bed. Where the move follows a hospital admission, ask for the discharge team to be involved from the start.

Fees and what sits outside them

Nursing fees are quoted weekly and run above residential fees, because they pay for qualified nursing hours as well as the room, meals, laundry and personal care. Where capital falls below the national threshold, the council may contribute up to the rate it will meet, with the resident paying from income such as pensions. Where registered nursing is confirmed as necessary, the health service pays a contribution towards the nursing element directly to the home. Ask for the fee in writing, with the policy on annual reviews and hospital stays.

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