Nursing home residents at risk of hypothermia

RESIDENTS of a nursing home in Co Meath were at risk of hypothermia and had to be given blankets and hot drinks by inspectors because the heating was not working properly, a court has heard.

An inspector with the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) also told Drogheda District Court the agency had recorded more than 19 falls in a six-week period at Creevelea House, a nursing home that had also been broken into three times.

The court also heard the home “was not clean” and had an inadequate food supply — fresh vegetables at the home amounted to one bag of potatoes and a turnip. There was also no meat.