{"id":56221,"date":"2025-08-09T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:20:21","slug":"swanage-care-home-rated-good-following-october-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56221\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanage care home rated good following October deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

A care home where three residents died in one night has been rated good after a recent inspection.<\/p>\n

An 86-year-old woman and two men, aged 74 and 91, died at Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage, Dorset, on 23 October 2024.<\/p>\n

Fifty residents were also evacuated amid initial fears that carbon monoxide poisoning had caused<\/a> the deaths.<\/p>\n

Dorset Police ended the investigation after finding the woman and the 74-year-old man had died of natural causes, adding the death of the other man would be the subject of inquest proceedings.<\/p>\n

The care home reopened<\/a> in January after no safety issues posing a risk to people were found.<\/p>\n

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment between 21 May and 12 June said 21 people were using the service during its inspection.<\/p>\n

“People were cared for safely and learning was taken from accidents and incidents and used to minimise future risks,” the report reads.<\/p>\n

“Referrals were made to external agencies such as safeguarding and to healthcare professionals.”<\/p>\n

It said some areas of medicine administration “needed to be improved; however we found no evidence of impact on people as a result of this”.<\/p>\n

The report goes on to say the provider had compiled care plans for people and had ensured they had been “supported to achieve good outcomes”. <\/p>\n

“We saw mostly kind and caring interactions between staff and people,” it said.<\/p>\n

Once spotted, other concerns such as food items in people’s clothing alongside underwear, hairbrushes and creams were “immediately addressed”.<\/p>\n

Four residents told the inspectors about the support they had received and were complimentary about staff.<\/p>\n

Three family members also told them they had been “satisfied their relatives were safe”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A care home where three residents died in one night has been rated good after a recent inspection.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-56221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}