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What the CQC found at Kexborough House Care Home

Requires improvementpublished 23 July 2025, 14 months ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the home was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Kexborough House Care Home.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Kexborough House Care Home

2 rated inspections over 2 years: the service has held its Good rating throughout.

  1. August 2020Inspected but not ratedcurrent rating
    Safe: Inspected but not rated
  2. April 2019Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  3. October 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  4. March 2022

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 4 March 2022.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0. A home can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections.

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