CQC Monitor

Albany Care Home

Albany House, Albany Way, Washington, NE37 1BJ

North East · Sunderland · nursing

Inadequate

Key question ratings

Safe
Inadequate
Caring
Requires improvement
Well-led
Inadequate
Effective
Requires improvement
Responsive
Requires improvement

Inspection history

PublishedOverallChangeTransitionAI summary
2015-11-09InadequatenewUnratedInadequateAlbany Care Home received an Inadequate rating because it failed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents through systemic failures in medicine management, safeguarding procedures, mental capacity assessments, and governance. Critical gaps included incomplete medication records, lack of controlled drugs management, failure to investigate safeguarding concerns properly, expired Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards without renewal, and ineffective quality monitoring systems where identified issues were not remedied.
2015-05-12UnratedUnratedUnrated
2014-03-13UnratedUnratedUnrated
2013-08-21UnratedUnratedUnrated
2012-11-27UnratedUnratedUnrated
2012-09-26UnratedUnratedUnrated
2012-02-13UnratedUnratedUnrated