Residents of a Cornwall Council-run care home have been told they will have to move out. Twenty two elderly people who live at Trefula House, near , will have to find alternative accommodation after the care home was deemed "not fit for purpose". It was hoped that a replacement care home would be built on the site at Vogue, near St Day, while Trefula House remained open.
However, this has not been possible and so staff will now work with the to find new homes for the occupants, some of whom have dementia. Trefula provides nursing care for 22 elderly people. The building is currently registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide a maximum of 28 nursing home beds.
It has an additional 14 bedrooms upstairs, which have been closed and are not registered due to health and safety risks. Cornwall Council's care business Corserv took over the running of Trefula in August 2019 from previous operator Tre'Care Group Ltd following a critical CQC report. Corserv has taken a number of steps to quickly improve standards, including recruiting a highly-experienced manager and specialist clinical staff.
However, it soon realised the building would need to be replaced. A spokesperson for the council said: "Following ’s takeover of Trefula in 2019 it was recognised that the building was not fit for purpose and would need to be redeveloped. Our long-term ambition is to identify a developer who can build a new care home on the site that will be fit for purpose for the residents of.