The Health Information and Quality Authority has published 36 inspection reports on Nursing Homes conducted this year. The reports cover inspections in February and March - prior to the introduction of visiting restrictions due to Covid-19.
The remaining reports are based on inspections when they resumed in May and June. HIQA found evidence of non-compliance in 20 centres.
Among the centres inspected in June was Kilbrew Recuperation and Nursing care in Ashbourne, Co Meath. It was from this centre that 79-year-old Ultan Meehan was transferred to a Dublin hospital at the end of May with tumorous facial wounds infected and infested with maggots.