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Nursing Homes

Commercial Property

Demand for nursing homes increasing as deals worth €440m completed last year

Falling emigration, increased affluence along with improved health and longer life expectancy are sending demand for nursing home beds soaring with 2022 being the second-strongest year in terms of deals after 2021
  • Donal Buckley
  • February 25, 2023
Health

100 legal cases still ‘live’ over nursing home charges

Department of Health secretary general says there are between 12 and 20 cases over nursing home charges that could result in further liability to the state
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 15, 2023
Politics

Varadkar says claims Attorney General’s office was used politically are ‘unfair’

The Taoiseach also said there was nothing ‘sinister’ about how the government tried to minimise payments over nursing home care
  • Paul O'Donoghue
  • February 13, 2023
Health

Attorney General finds government’s legal strategy on nursing home fees was ‘sound’

The government had been accused of minimising public payouts to nursing home residents who were wrongly charged for care
  • Paul O'Donoghue
  • February 7, 2023
Politics

‘I am just surprised that there is such a level of surprise’ over state’s strategy

Gareth Noble, a leading children’s lawyer, says the state’s legal containment strategy is also applied to cases including disabled children and adults
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 5, 2023
Health

Conor O’Mahony: state’s legal strategy on nursing home charges is the rule, not the exception

‘The aim is to send a message: if you come for the state, you’d better not miss’, writes Professor Conor O’Mahony of the School of Law at University College Cork
  • Conor O'Mahony
  • February 3, 2023
Politics

Varadkar: nursing home legal strategy was ‘sound policy and legitimate’

The Taoiseach said that he must have been briefed about the matter, and would have signed off on it
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 31, 2023
Politics

Attorney General to investigate allegations of ‘illegal’ nursing home charges

A whistleblower has said the government pursued a secret strategy to minimise public payouts
  • Daniel Murray
  • January 30, 2023
Politics

Taoiseach ‘did not know’ of state’s legal strategy on nursing home charges

Varadkar was responding to a report which claimed the state had pursued a strategy to suppress its liability in relation to ‘illegal’ nursing home charges
  • Daniel Murray
  • January 30, 2023
Health

Soaring building prices pushes up cost of state nursing home contract by €100m

Multinational construction company BAM withdrew when it could no longer stand by its agreed fixed price
  • Michael Brennan
  • December 23, 2022
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

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