Welcome to Downham Grange Care Home

Downham Market, Norfolk, PE38 9PA

Downham Grange is a purpose-built, modern care home close to the town centre of Downham Market. It offers a comfortable, stylish environment with every modern facility for nursing, residential and dementia care. Residents love its landscaped courtyard garden.

0136 630 8516

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We are ready to welcome you

While we are still waiting for the CQC to come back and inspect us we are certainly ready to welcome you!

We have a wonderful team at Downham Grange and fantastic modern facilities so why not come and see for yourself.

The Local Authority recently inspected us with a positive outcome and we are proud of the service we provide for the community.

Adeshola Adejuyigbe
Home manager

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A home from home

There are six lounges/dining rooms where residents are encouraged to entertain their friends and relatives and there’s also a landscaped courtyard garden for outside unwinding and relaxation.

Types of care

Residential
Nursing
Dementia
Respite
End-of-Life
Convalescence

Proud to be part of the community

Links with the local community and schools are excellent and Downham Grange welcomes visits from these organisations. As you’d expect from our caring staff, there are an exciting array of activities for our residents. No two days are the same at Downham Grange

Highlights

The comforts of home
- Well-designed contemporarily furnished bedrooms.
- On-site hairdressing salon
- Six lounges and dining rooms
Our care
- Nurse call system
- Care and activities designed for all residents
- Supportive staff
- Wheelchair access throughout
The building
- A purpose-built modern home
- Tranquil courtyard building
- Communal rooms throughout
- 62 bedrooms with en-suites
Day-to-day life
- Plenty of activities for residents and their families
- Flexible mealtimes and a Night Bite menu all created by our passionate chef
- Good links with the local community.
- Hairdressing salon

Independent reviews

CQC Inspection

Carehome.co.uk

Our response to the CQC report

We contested the CQC report at its draft stage but no significant changes were made by the CQC despite our highly detailed challenge. We accept some shortcomings, which we are addressing through a robust action plan, but consider the report extremely harsh and out of proportion and are therefore extremely disappointed that the CQC has still rated the service Inadequate.

We will be challenging the overall rating of the report, in particular because the key questions of Effective, Caring and Responsive continue to be rated Good. Hence we will await the outcome of the CQC’s deliberations regarding our second challenge.

Safe Response

We pride ourselves on ensuring that the safety of all our residents is paramount. We note there were issues of ordering medicines which we have addressed and worked with our pharmacy and GP surgery to resolve. We do appreciate our recording of repositioning people unable to move themselves confidently in bed could be better regarding the prevention of pressure ulcers. We would like to point out that this is, in our view, a recording issue and each person that we support to reposition has their skin intact and hence has not experienced harm. Therefore further reasons for our disappointment at the rating given by the CQC.

The home uses a well-known dependency tool to determine staffing quotas and we were therefore satisfied there were sufficient staff for the service users’ needs. However, the CQC felt there was the need for an additional qualified nurse on night duty and as a responsible care service and viewing the CQC as a critical friend we are in the process of taking this action.

Well-Led

The report we consider is highly disappointing and to a degree in conflict. For example the CQC refers to the lack of management oversight to which we partially agree. However the report does draw reference to us addressing issues as any management team would in any home, therefore surely there is management oversight in action. We have drawn up and commenced the implementation of an action plan to address those areas with which we agree needs improvement and we have met with relatives and service users to explain the report and what we are doing to resolve. We are open and transparent and will be meeting the service users and relatives regularly to provide an update of our progress. We have received positive comments from relatives about the care delivered at the service and we would like to thank the service users and relatives for their support. We apologise we have not got everything right but we do so strongly believe this report is grossly unfair. We have full confidence in our caring and highly skilled staff team at the service.