Cork nursing home failed to carry out fire safety upgrades 18 months after promise, Hiqa says

This nursing home, along with others in the Aperee Living group founded by the Cork-based investment firm Blackbee, has since been taken over by a consortium

The Health Information and Quality Authority inspectors found exit doors which did not open wide enough for people using walking aids to access, and two doors which “required excessive force” to open at the Aperee Living Churchtown centre. File picture

Fire safety improvements committed to in January 2022 for a Cork nursing home were not carried out by an inspection in August this year, the health watchdog Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has said.

Hiqa published 50 inspection reports on residential centres for older people. Among them is a report on the Aperee Living Churchtown centre.