A CARE home is celebrating success after achieving a special status which recognises quality of care.

Lime Court care home, in Lime Avenue, Dovercourt, passed its recent accreditation within the Gold Standards Framework to achieve ‘beacon status’.

The framework is an evidence-based approach to optimising care for all people nearing the end of their life, given by front-line care providers.

To become accredited, care homes undergo rigorous monitoring to ensure staff continue to deliver high quality care, training and quality assurance to the people they support.

In order to achieve a ‘Beacon Status’, team members working in the home must go through a training scheme with the GSF and showcase knowledge and skills relating to end-of-life care.

Suzanne Moore, home manager at Lime Court, said: “We are so proud to receive a pass for our GSF and achieve a beacon status.

“End of life care is where, as a care team, we feel we excel and this has provided us with confirmation of that.”

Helen Bennett, regional operations director in Essex for the care homes provider, stated how “proud” she was the home had achieved such a “brilliant” achievement, particularly given the additional pressures the pandemic has placed upon care homes.