Nursing home group gears up for expansion

State-of-the-art homes will be ‘places to live, not places to be forgotten’

Dr Ahmed Salman, founder of Ras Medical, with Stephen McWilliams, the companys chief executive, at the Auralia cosmetic surgery clinic in Dublin Picture: Fergal Phillips

The founder of the group building a flagship nursing home in Co Wicklow has said it aims to be Ireland’s biggest private provider of care homes in coming years.

Dr Ahmed Salman of Ras Medical said the group was close to acquiring several more sites in the Dublin catchment area.

“There are two sites on the southside of Dublin and three that we identified and have almost acquired in the north of the ...