Nursing home a byword for innovation

It comes with the kind of mod-cons most would associate more with a family home than a community nursing unit, but then innovation is the byword for Cork’s newest residential care facility.

Ballincollig Community Nursing Unit, a €20.2m HSE build, has broken ground on several fronts, not least its public/private approach to running the facility, the first of its kind in the country.

While the HSE is the registered service provider, the home is 100% managed by Mowlam Healthcare Ltd, an arrangement that came about when the HSE was unable to staff the facility due to the recruitment moratorium. Mowlam has a track record in private nursing home provision with 15 nursing homes around the country.