Recent closures more related to funding issues than desire to change business model, says industry group
The condition is that they would have to wait 18 months following de-registration from Hiqa – a process that itself takes six months to allow residents, families and public health authorities the time to prepare for a closure. The decision to lift the ban was reported by the Irish Independent on Friday.
However, Mr Donnelly and Ms Butler said given the challenges facing both departments, and to balance their needs, ”we have decided to take a more flexible approach”. They referenced the 18-month “cooling-off period”. They said they believe this will allow for new accommodation for refugees while “disincentivising the closure of viable nursing homes”.
“We do have nursing homes that are closing and there’s lots of reasons for that,” he said. “We also have more nursing homes that are opening as well and we need to make sure that we have a net increase in the number of nursing home beds.”Mr Varadkar said there is a need to focus on home care “to make sure that future people have to go a nursing home in the first place or at least if they do, spend less time there than they otherwise would”.
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