{"id":616470,"date":"2026-09-15T04:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616470\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:46:21","slug":"hiqa-raises-concerns-over-evacuation-arrangements-at-kerry-nursing-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616470\/","title":{"rendered":"HIQA raises concerns over evacuation arrangements at Kerry nursing home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiqa.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIQA<\/a> has raised fire safety concerns at a nursing home near Abbeydorney.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An unannounced inspection at Riverside Nursing Home found residents were happy and felt safe, with positive feedback about staff and the quality of food.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, the centre was found not compliant with fire precautions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/valentia-hospital-receives-overall-positive-review-from-health-watchdog-488049\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health watchdog report<\/a> stated the centre was compliant with fourteen regulations, substantially compliant with five, and not compliant with one.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector said residents&#8217; personal evacuation plans did not set out the support needed for night-time evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>They also found evacuation plans needed updating, and a full compartment evacuation drill had not been carried out in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>An urgent compliance plan was issued over one evacuation route.<\/p>\n<p>The healthcare provider said a ramp has since been repaired, new evacuation plans completed, and four full compartment evacuation drills carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector described the atmosphere as pleasant, saying residents were &#8220;relaxed and comfortable in their surroundings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 HIQA has raised fire safety concerns at a nursing home near Abbeydorney. An unannounced inspection at Riverside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[278914,163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-616470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-fire-safety-concerns","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}