The Alliance Supporting Nursing Homes addressed TDs and Senators in the AV Room at Leinster House. Special thanks to Michael Healy-Rae TD for organising the session who is a true supporter of our Alliance and a committed advocate for the nursing home sector. My thanks to colleagues from Hibernia Nursing Home Group and Carysfort Nursing Home who joined me for a substantive and timely engagement.
Topics we presented on:
- Discussed the Programme for Government and its implications for nursing homes
- Highlighted the current challenges facing the sector
- Presented a Resident First cost-of-care model (Rosetta Model) to TDs and Senators
- Spoke on the importance of HIQA – Health Information and Quality Authority and the Office of the Chief Inspector, as well as the current Independent Review to support their practice by Forvis Mazars
- Emphasised rural nursing homes projects to reclaim further bed capacity
Representation of the nursing home sector is often filtered through accountancy lenses or carried by those with no healthcare experience or qualifications. The realities of care are best articulated by those who deliver it and have clinical management experience. Policy for older persons and Nursing Homes in Ireland cannot be credibly shaped from a distance. The complexity of care, the weight of regulation, and the lived experience of residents and staff demand expertise rooted in practice, not removed from it.
We are grateful for the members of the Oireachtas and various Government Departments who attended and welcome the prospect of further Oireachtas Committee level engagement.
If the sector is to be properly understood, it must first be properly represented. That begins with those at its core, Nurses Representing Nursing Homes. The Alliance does just that.