Radius Heatherlea Care Centre

Profile & contact details

Premises details
Premises nameRadius Heatherlea Care Centre
Address 139 Vivian Street New Plymouth 4310
Total beds55
Service typesDementia care, Rest home care, Geriatric, Medical
Certification/licence details
Certification/licence nameRadius Residential Care Limited - Radius Heatherlea Care Centre
Current auditorHealth and Disability Auditing New Zealand Limited
End date of current certificate/licence16 September 2026
Certification period36 months
Provider details
Provider nameRadius Residential Care Limited
Street address 12 Viaduct Harbour Avenue Auckland Central Auckland 1010
Post addressPO Box 450 Auckland 1140
Websitewww.radiuscare.net.nz/

Progress on issues from the last audit

What’s on this page?

This rest home has been audited against the Health and Disability Services Standards. During the last audit, the auditors identified some areas for improvement.

Issues from their last audit are listed in the corrective actions table below, along with the action required to fix the issue, its risk level, and whether or not the issue has been reported as fixed.

A guide to the table is available below.

Details of corrective actions

Date of last audit: 10 July 2023

Outcome requiredFound at auditAction requiredRisk ratingAction statusDate action reported complete
Service providers shall ensure there are sufficient health care and support workers on duty at all times to provide culturally and clinically safe services.The service does not have sufficient numbers of registered nurses to have a registered nurse on duty at all times in the hospital level care as per ARRC agreement D17.4. Ensure a registered nurse is on duty 24/7 to meet the requirements of the ARRC agreement. PA LowReporting Complete17/01/2024
Planned review of a person’s care or support plan shall: (a) Be undertaken at defined intervals in collaboration with the person and whānau, together with wider service providers; (b) Include the use of a range of outcome measurements; (c) Record the degree of achievement against the person’s agreed goals and aspiration as well as whānau goals and aspirations; (d) Identify changes to the person’s care or support plan, which are agreed collaboratively through the ongoing re-assessment and review … (this text has been trimmed due to space limits).(i) Three care plans were not always updated to reflect a change in the resident condition if changes occurred earlier including: (a) one resident with changes in behaviour in the dementia unit; (b) another resident in the dementia unit falls strategies were not updated and (c) one hospital resident had a change in equipment need. (ii) Progress notes do not always provide an evolving picture of the resident’s journey: (a) a resident from the dementia unit`s care journey was insufficiently docume… (this text has been trimmed due to space limits).(i) Ensure care plans are updated to reflect a change in the resident condition if changes occurred earlier than the six-monthly evaluation/review. (ii) Ensure progress notes entries reflect care journey of the resident. PA LowReporting Complete17/01/2024

Guide to table

Outcome required

The outcome required by the Health and Disability Services Standards.

Found at audit

The issue that was found when the rest home was audited.

Action required

The action necessary to fix the issue, as decided by the auditor.

Risk level

Whether the required outcome was partially attained (PA) or unattained (UA), and what the risk level of the issue is.

The outcome is partially attained when:

  • there is evidence that the rest home has the appropriate process in place, but not the required documentation
  • when the rest home has the required documentation, but is unable to show that the process is being implemented.

The outcome is unattained when the rest home cannot show that they have the needed processes, systems or structures in place.

The risk level is determined by two things: how likely the issue is to happen and how serious the consequences of it happening would be.

The risk levels are:

  • negligible – this issue requires no additional action or planning.
  • low – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within a specified and agreed time frame, such as one year.
  • moderate – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within a specific and agreed time frame, such as six months.
  • high – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within one month or as agreed between the service and auditor.
  • critical – This issue requires immediate corrective action in order to fix the identified issue including documentation and sign off by the auditor within 24 hours to ensure consumer safety.

The risk level may be downgraded once the rest home reports the issue is fixed.

Action status

Whether the necessary action is still in progress or if it is complete, as reported by the rest home to the relevant district health board.

Date action reported complete

The date that the district health board was told the issue was fixed.

Audit reports

Before you begin
Before you download the audit reports, please read our guide to rest home certification and audits which gives an overview of the auditing process and explains what the audit reports mean.

What’s on this page?

Audit reports for this rest home’s latest audits can be downloaded below.

Full audit reports are provided for audits processed and approved after 29 August 2013.  Note that the format for the full audit reports was streamlined from 16 December 2014.  Full audit reports between 29 August 2013 and 16 December 2014 are therefore in a different format. 

From 1 June 2009 to 28 February 2022 rest homes were audited against the Health and Disability Services Standards NZS 8134:2008. These standards have been updated, and from 28 February 2022 rest homes are audited against Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard NZS 8134:2021.

Prior to 29 August 2013, only audit summaries are available.

Both the recent full audit reports and previous audit summaries include:

  • an overview of the rest home’s performance, and
  • coloured indicators showing how well the rest home performed against the different aspects of the Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard.

Note: From November 2013, as rest homes are audited, any issues from their latest audit (the corrective actions required by the auditor) will appear on the rest home’s page. As the rest home completes the required actions, the status on the web site will update.

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