Nursing homes fear closures over HIQA costs
Nursing Homes Ireland, the representative body of the country’s 447 private nursing homes, revealed yesterday that the sector has spent more than €35m on its facilities and operations to comply with HIQA standards since formal inspections began in July 2009.
NHI also complained that public nursing homes were receiving on average over €500 more in weekly bed rates than their private counterparts from the National Treatment Purchase Fund.