Nursing home told to improve dining experience

A NURSING home has been warned to improve its dining experience after inspectors criticised the practice of pouring white sauce on all meals and adding milk and sugar to residents’ tea without asking.

While praised for being well-managed and organised, Maynooth Community Unit, Leinster St, Maynooth, was nonetheless faulted for storing equipment in one dining room and physiotherapy bars in another, which staff acknowledged restricted space.

Inspectors from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) were also concerned that not all residents at the Health Service Executive (HSE) home had access to call bells and that the home had no contract in place for residents.