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Nursing Homes

Health

Three new nursing homes opened by Silver Stream Healthcare following €65m investment

The move will double the group’s capacity to 750 beds and increase the number of homes it operates to 11
  • Lorcan Allen
  • July 9, 2022
Commercial property

European investors still keen on Irish care home market

Though activity has cooled a little, interest is still strong in homes run by top operators in future-proofed buildings, with more than €200m invested in the first four months of the year
  • Donal Buckley
  • May 21, 2022

Nursing homes to reduce waiting period to admit patients after Covid outbreaks

Nursing homes have been given permission to take in hospital patients within seven to ten days of the last case of Covid-19 being detected, rather than 28 days
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 20, 2022

Orpea faces claims of abuse in French nursing homes

New book alleges large-scale mistreatment of elderly residents in France by giant care home operator, which recently bought into Irish market
  • Eva Short
  • January 30, 2022

The Big Interview: Tom Finn

The chief executive of Silver Stream Healthcare is full of praise for the Irish healthcare system, but believes the government made an error in separating community healthcare from acute hospital services
  • Lorcan Allen
  • October 10, 2021

Pair of eye-catching Dublin properties come to market from Hora

No 43 Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin 2 and Castle Manor on the Swords Road are guiding at €3.75m and €1.5m respectively
  • Tina-Marie O'Neill
  • September 26, 2021

The battle against Covid: is vaccine immunity already on the wane?

Israel is rolling out a booster programme as Covid-19 cases spike, while outbreaks in nursing homes here are suggesting reduced vaccine efficacy
  • Rachel Lavinand
  • Aaron Rogan
  • August 22, 2021

ESRI predicts health spending will rise due to growing and ageing population

Increased demand for non-hospital care and price hikes for high-tech medicines are among the factors expected to push up costs
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • July 28, 2021

Significant potential for institutional investors in senior care

The nursing home sector is growing in demand and will require proper policy and planning in the years ahead
  • Eithne O'Neill
  • June 20, 2021

Orpea buys out shares in Brindley Healthcare

French care home group has bought remaining shares in firm having already bought several nursing homes in the past year
  • Barry J Whyte
  • April 25, 2021

Nursing home opportunities lie in converted hotels

Two recent deals show that bedroom size is a major reason why some hotels are being looked at in terms of potential to be used as nursing homes
  • Donal Buckley
  • March 28, 2021

SignaCare to be acquired by Virtue for €35m

The south-eastern nursing home group, run by Margaret-Anne and John Dargan, has 233 beds across four homes
  • Róisín Burke
  • March 21, 2021

HSE reviews visitor ban and serial testing in nursing homes

With most staff and residents vaccinated, the health service is expected to make new proposals to Nphet for this sector
  • Daniel Murray
  • March 2, 2021

Lifting of ban on visits to nursing homes now urged

Geriatric specialists say vaccination has reduced the risk hugely, and that leaving the elderly to die alone in homes is ‘inhumane’
  • Danielle Barron
  • February 28, 2021

Taoiseach willing to have an inquiry into nursing home deaths

Micheál Martin has previously indicated his opposition to a full-blown state inquiry into Covid-19 deaths
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 24, 2021

Ireland faces severe lack of nursing home beds within a decade

Rate of new developments is significantly off the pace required to serve the country’s growing elderly population, property industry experts warn
  • Killian Woods
  • February 16, 2021

Susan O’Keeffe: Nursing home residents have been failed again in vaccine rollout

Within the first three weeks of Covid-19 vaccines arriving, just 10 per cent found their way to nursing homes, while residents accounted for 37 per cent of all January deaths
  • Susan O'Keeffe
  • February 4, 2021

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