As nursing home closes, board says it had no choice

As the last elderly patient moved out of a West Cork nursing home this week, its voluntary board insisted it was left with no choice but to close the facility.

The situation where residents suffered “the heartbreak of parting from their friends” was the consequence of an “impossible situation”, the chairman of the voluntary society that ran the facility noted said.

The last patient left Cara House in Skibbereen on the eve of yesterday’s deadline for vacating the premises found to be in breach of of regulations by the State’s health watchdog.