HIQA<\/a>\u00a0supervision\u00a0when a care provider fails to meet certain standards.<\/p>\nAn unannounced inspection by the health watchdog in March (4 March 2026) found it was not compliant with governance and management requirements.<\/p>\n
However, the standard of care provided by healthcare workers was praised by residents.<\/p>\n
The HIQA report states there have been repeated changes involving company directors since November 2021, including 14 notifications of changes to directors or secretary, involving 20 role changes.<\/p>\n
At the time of the inspection, only one director was identified on the registration.<\/p>\n
The regulator also noted that a liquidator had been appointed to the parent company and that the proposed sale of Whitethorn Lodge had not yet been completed.<\/p>\n
The provider told HIQA that the centre was in the process of being sold, that an application had begun for a new provider to take over registration, and that financial statements had been provided demonstrating the company\u2019s stability.<\/p>\n
It also said the home had received continued investment over the previous 18 months.<\/p>\n
HIQA also found staffing was substantially compliant, but said it was not assured that night-time staffing was sufficient for 68 residents across four wings.<\/p>\n
The provider said staffing levels had since been reviewed and increased.<\/p>\n
Fire evacuation plans did not show evacuation routes, while some infection-control issues were also identified.<\/p>\n
However, the inspectors also found residents\u2019 rights, safeguarding, healthcare, care planning, medicines and the premises were compliant.<\/p>\n
Inspectors spoke with eleven residents, who were complimentary about the care they received and the kindness and helpfulness of staff.<\/p>\n
They also found that residents had access to activities seven days a week, including group activities, one-to-one exercises, and music and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitethorn Lodge Care Home in Tralee remains under regulatory escalation, with the health watchdog raising continuing concerns about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-679456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}