{"id":288292,"date":"2026-01-16T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:53:10","slug":"hiqa-inspection-report-scabies-outbreak-and-strong-smell-of-urine-in-kilkenny-nursing-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288292\/","title":{"rendered":"HIQA inspection report scabies outbreak and \u2018strong smell of urine\u2019 in Kilkenny nursing home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">This week, HIQA released the results of their two-day inspection at Brookhaven Nursing Home in Co Kilkenny which took place in September of 2025\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brookhaven Nursing Home near Ballyraggett in Co Kilkenny. Photo: Google Maps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8664bf10-7c50-4615-a6ae-4237d643f2df.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brookhaven Nursing Home near Ballyraggett in Co Kilkenny. Photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A nursing home in Co Kilkenny has come under fire after HIQA discovered a scabies outbreak and a \u201cstrong smell of urine\u201d in parts of the home during a two-day inspection of the centre in September of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brookhaven Nursing Home, situated in the village of Ballyragget in Co Kilkenny, can accommodate up to 71 residents at a time, both male and female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, HIQA released the results of their two-day inspection at Brookhaven Nursing Home in Co Kilkenny which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[15381,18,135,475,474,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-288292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115907238477648588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}