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Brewster House

Brewster House is a care home in Maldon, run by Runwood Homes Limited. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in June 2024 (last checked 30 March 2022). It has 74 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment.

  • Care home without nursing

Oak Road, Heybridge, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4AX

What CQC says

Overall rating

Requires improvementrated 2 years ago (27 June 2024)

The service is not performing as well as it should.

The same as the rating before it (Requires improvement, 25 May 2022).

Last checked by CQC: 30 March 2022.

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The five key questions

CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.

  • Is it safe?

    Requires improvementrated 2 years ago (27 June 2024)
  • Is it effective?

    No rating for this question.

  • Is it caring?

    Goodrated 2 years ago (27 June 2024)
  • Is it responsive to people’s needs?

    Goodrated 2 years ago (27 June 2024)
  • Is it well-led?

    Requires improvementrated 2 years ago (27 June 2024)

Not sure what the ratings mean? Read how CQC ratings work.

Understanding this rating

Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.

This rating is from June 2024. That is more than 2 years ago. A service can change a lot in that time, for better or worse. CQC decides when to inspect again.

What CQC looks at

  • Safe: Requires improvement

    CQC checks whether people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. It looks at safeguarding, how risks are managed, staffing levels and training, medicines, and keeping the place clean to stop infections.

    Questions you could ask

    • How are medicines looked after and given on time?
    • How do you decide how many staff are on duty, day and night?
    • When something goes wrong, what do you do, and how do you tell families?
  • Well-led: Requires improvement

    CQC checks how well the service is run. It looks at the managers and leaders, the culture, how the service checks and improves its own quality, and whether staff feel able to speak up.

    Questions you could ask

    • Who is the registered manager, and how can families contact them?
    • How do you check the quality of care yourselves?
    • How can staff raise worries, and how are they supported when they do?

Questions you could ask

  • What has changed since the last inspection?

How often CQC looks again

There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.

Earlier ratings

Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.

About this service

Type of care
Care home without nursing
Who it supports
Dementia, Older people, Physical disability, Sensory impairment, Younger adults
Number of beds
74
Nursing care
No, personal care only
Registered since
16 December 2010
Local council area
Essex

Who runs it

Provider
Runwood Homes Limited
Brand
BRAND Runwood
Kind of provider
Company or organisation

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