A troubled Dumfries care home is to close at the end of the month.
The operators of Dalawoodie House Nursing Home have agreed to cancel their registration of the facility.
Glasgow-based Downing Care Ltd notified Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership (DGHSCP) of its decision at the end of last week.
The move followed a legal action at the sheriff court by the Care Inspectorate on Wednesday.
The watchdog agency was seeking to have the operator’s registration of Dalawoodie cancelled amid concerns over the standard of care.
The action was raised after the operators failed to implement required improvements after three inspection visits earlier this year.
And it has now been confirmed that Dalawoodie, at Newbridge, will stop operating as a nursing home by October 28.
The facility is home to 23 residents with three people having already relocated to alternative accommodation.
DGHSCP is currently engaged with the operators of older adult care homes within Dumfries and Galloway, seeking to maximise existing capacity with the intention that all of Dalawoodie’s remaining residents will be offered suitable alternative accommodation within the region before the registration is cancelled.
Work is taking place with the operators of Dalawoodie to ensure residents continue to be supported in the interim.
DGHSCP has committed a range of its own professional staff to assist the home and it intends to maintain a continued presence in order to provide the necessary support and oversee the provision of good care to the residents.
The partnership’s chief officer, Julie White, said: “Our paramount concern here is the welfare of Dalawoodie’s residents and their families.
“We are working with them to try and make the transition to new accommodation as comfortable as possible but with a very real appreciation for the distress that may be being experienced and a recognition that some interim arrangements may be required until a resident’s preferred care home accommodation can be secured.
