Avon Lodge Care Home

Reading Avon Lodge Care Home's CQC ratings

All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Avon Lodge Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.

For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 59 of the 73 other care homes in South Gloucestershire that CQC has rated.

Budgeting for this home

We estimate Avon Lodge Care Home at £1,520–£1,860 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £79k–£97k.

NHS-funded nursing care covers part of the nursing cost for eligible residents and is paid directly to the home.

South Gloucestershire Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.

How it fits locally

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 23 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Kingswood Court Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.

8 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Kingswood ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (5 min), a pharmacy (5 min), a shop (4 min), a park (6 min), a café (4 min) and a bus stop (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

The registered provider

Avon Lodge Care Home is run by Healthcare Homes (lsc) Limited (company 06990425), incorporated in 2009, 5 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 3 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

Its registered business activity is medical nursing home activities.

Healthcare Homes (LSC) Limited runs 13 CQC-registered services across 12 council areas; 13 of the 13 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

It trades under the Healthcare Homes brand, which covers 54 services run by 8 registered providers.

History with CQC

Registered in May 2015, it has 11 years on the CQC register.

CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2017–2022), starting at Good and staying Good every time.

4 years have passed since the last overall rating. Services judged lower-risk wait longer for a visit, but teams change, so check what is different today.

There are 4 CQC reports on file for this address; the newest is from 5 August 2022.