A BAILDON care home that required improvement last year is celebrating after being rated as ‘good’ in its latest inspection.

The Borrins Care Home, in Station Road, has been ranked as good in all of the inspection categories; for being safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, following its inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) last month.

The home has shown an upturn since it was told to improve after its previous inspection in August last year, when tablets which were supposed to have been administered were found on the floor under a resident’s bed. The previous inspection also found another tablet meant for the same resident was still floating in a glass of water, despite a senior staff member signing a sheet to confirm the medication had been taken.

Controlled medicines were also meant to be checked weekly but according to a register, they were last checked almost two months before the inspectors’ visit – which breached the Health and Social Care Act 2008, said the report.

Inspectors said systems and ways of managing medicines at the home were neither safe or effective at that time. But the home was ranked as good in the caring and being effective categories but needed to improve its safety, the way it was led and its responsiveness.

Now, following its latest inspection on August 1 this year, inspectors found people’s care records were easy to follow and were reviewed every month.

They also discovered that staff treated people with kindness and patience and residents looked well-cared-for and their privacy and dignity was respected and maintained. There were 23 residents living at the 25-bed home on its latest inspection.

Jacqueline Byrne, home manager, said she was happy with the home’s latest inspection findings and it was now keeping on top of its audits.

She said: “I am quite happy about this latest report.

“The staff have worked hard and we are working as a team.

“We know we are a good home”

The CQC’s latest report stated: “We found since the last inspection of the service in August 2016, improvements had been made regarding medicines and care records were being kept up to date.

“People’s healthcare needs were being met and medicines were being stored and managed safely.”