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A south Dublin nursing home will close its doors because it is “too small to be financially viable”.
Cedar House Nursing Home at Mount Anville Park, Dublin 14, is home to a number of Sacred Heart Sisters, though there are understood to be more residents who are lay members of the public.
No closing date has yet been put in place for the 24-bed facility, but a spokesman said that the timeline would be flexible to ensure that residents can be relocated. It is understood that the facility will remain open for at least a number of months.
Family members of the residents have been informed of the impending closure.
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In a statement, Barbara Duffy, chair of the board of directors of Cedar House Nursing Home, and Dairne McHenry, canonical leader of the Society of the Sacred Heart Ireland-Scotland Province, said they announced their decision with “great sadness, and immense regret”.
“Like so many other nursing homes, Cedar House is now too small to be financially viable and, despite the best efforts of all concerned, it has continued, over a number of years, to incur considerable financial losses,” read the statement.
It said that the board and the Society of the Sacred Heart had been in negotiation for more than a year with companies who had expressed interest in acquiring the facility as a going concern - but these had not been successful.
The statement said that the board and the Society of the Sacred Heart “will now follow all of the statutory processes to ensure that the closure is as sensitive, smooth and ethical as is possible under these difficult circumstances”.