Closed, the ‘lack of care’ home
TWO millionaire brothers were fined more than £80,000 after the ‘depressing, unhygienic and unsafe’ care home they owned was shut down.
CQC inspectors were ‘appalled’ when they visited the Mossley Manor Care Home owned by 56-year-old Amjad Latif and his brother Amer, 47, after a tip-off from the daughter of a prospective resident.
In March, a judge branded the institution in Liverpool, which charged private residents almost £ ,000 a month, a ‘lack-of-care home, not a care home’.
Its 43 residents were unkempt and had not received a bath or shower in the previous three weeks. The CQC also found that the home failed to ‘control the risk of serious injury’, with residents needlessly ending up in hospital. Bedrooms were not cleaned regularly and communal toilets did not contain soap or hand towels.
Inspectors applied to Liverpool magistrates to cancel the provider’s registration and close Mossley Manor.
The two Latif brothers, who lived in homes worth more than £1million each, were fined £60,000 for failing to provide safe care and treatment, and £ 0,800 for 13 offences of failing to notify the CQC.