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2024
Ireland's nursing home sector 'under threat of failure' amid post-pandemic challenges - report
Fourteen private operators control 40% of nursing home beds, the study found.
One in five small, private nursing homes have closed for good, since the pandemic.
Private patients receive 55% less subsidy funding compared to patients in the public sector.
Models of care are being wiped out and the sector is under threat, according to one sector representative.
All time
'All about an effective roll-out now': Vaccine prioritisation for nursing home residents welcomed after difficult year
The HSE has been offered an additional 1,000 beds this winter
The pricing model for nursing home beds slammed as 'not fit for purpose'
Warning of future nursing homes crisis if 'action isn't taken now'