Nursing Home's Abrupt Closure Leaves Devastated Elderly Patients With 48 Hours Notice To Find Alternative Accommodations; Families Of Residents Rage As They Scramble To Assist Vulnerable Loved Ones

In Hull, United Kingdom, the Hull Daily Mail reports:

• Families of residents in an east Hull nursing home are furious after being given 48 hours to find them alternative accommodation.
  
  Some are believed to be dementia sufferers. Private health firm Bupa is closing the 13-bed unit at its Saltshouse Haven residential and nursing care complex in Saltshouse Road.
  
  The move follows a highly-critical inspection report on the home by the Care Quality Commission. It placed the home, which has a capacity of 150 beds, in special measures after being rated inadequate.
  
  Inspectors found Bupa was in breach of seven regulations under the Health and Social Act over the way the home was being run.
  
  The CQC said inadequate staffing levels had resulted in people not receiving proper levels of care, putting some of them at risk. As a result of the special measures sanction, Bupa agreed to suspend taking in new admissions with a warning that its registration to run the home could be removed unless improvements were made.
  
  Now the company has announced the Coniston Lodge nursing unit is to close.
  
  However, families with people in the unit say they have only been given 48-hours notice to find alternative accommodation for their relatives.
  
  One relative, who did not wish to be named, said: "Some residents who are very ill are devastated to say the least. It's a scandal."
  
  Another family member said: "We are frantically trying to find a place for our mother."

For more, see ‘Scandal’ as Saltshouse Haven in Hull gives elderly residents 48 hours to move out.