Private

Cara Care Centre

Northwood Park, Santry, D09HW01

Call 01 894 0600

Fair Deal weekly price

€1,398

HSE list #230, 4 September 2026

Registered beds

102

HIQA maximum occupancy

Registered until

5 January 2029

Current registration since 6 January 2026

Fair Deal price

This is the most the home can charge a week for residents on the Fair Deal scheme. Under Fair Deal you pay up to 80% of your income and 7.5% of the value of your assets a year, and the State pays the rest. Homes may charge extra for things like activities, hairdressing or newspapers, so ask about these when you call.

List	Published	Weekly price
HSE Section 40 #230	4 September 2026	€1,398

Registration conditions

Read the conditions HIQA attached to this registration

Condition 1: Subject to any prohibitions or restrictions contained in any other condition(s), the designated centre shall be operated at all times in accordance with the Statement of Purpose within the footprint of the designated centre on the floor plan received on 04/07/2025. The registered provider shall only provide for the specific care and support needs, and services, within the facilities as set out the Statement of Purpose, as agreed with the Chief Inspector at the time of registration. Any changes to the specific care and support needs and services provided must be agreed in advance with the Chief Inspector. Condition 2: Only persons aged 18 years or older shall be accommodated at the designated centre at any time. Condition 3: The maximum number of persons that may be accommodated at the designated centre is: 102.

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Northwood Residential Home
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Fair Deal weekly price
€1,455 / week
Inspection score
91
Beds
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Phone
01 223 4670
St Pappin's Nursing Home
Private
Ballymun, Co. Dublin· 410 m away

Inspection score

83/ 100

Mostly compliant

Improving

Ranked 54 of 103 scored homes in Co. Dublin · 66 of 121 within 25 km

Leadership and management78

Quality and safety of care85

What went into the score

13 January 2026 · counts 50%7 of 11 compliant · 87
16 July 2025 · counts 30%8 of 14 compliant · 85
20 June 2024 · counts 20%4 not compliant · 9 of 15 compliant · 71

Fair Deal price is about the same as the Co. Dublin median of €1,413 a week.

How we calculate this score

Every regulation HIQA judged on an inspection earns points: Compliant 100, Substantially compliant 65, Not compliant 25.
Where the compliance plan rates the risk of a failing regulation, orange (moderate risk) takes off 15 more points and red (high risk) takes off 40. Yellow (low risk) takes off nothing.
An inspection's score is the average over the regulations it looked at.
A home's score combines its last 3 inspections: the newest counts for 50%, the one before for 30% and the one before that for 20%. With fewer inspections the weights are scaled up to 100%.
The trend compares the newest inspection's score with the average of the earlier ones: 5 points or more higher is improving, 5 or more lower is declining, anything else is stable.
Homes are ranked by score within their county and among scored homes within 25 km. Homes with the same score share a rank.

Method v1. It uses only HIQA's published judgments, not our opinion, and is recalculated whenever a new report is published.

What the latest inspection found

Cara Care Centre is a large, purpose-built nursing home with mostly single en-suite rooms and some double rooms. Residents generally felt content and praised the staff, though some noted occasional delays in assistance and staff turnover. The home is clean, with good infection control, and offers nutritious meals with choices. There are some concerns about unlocked sluice rooms, incomplete care plans for residents with challenging behaviours, and some maintenance issues like a missing door handle.

Long-term care
Dementia care

What inspectors liked

Most residents were content and praised the staff as great and rated the home highly.
The centre is clean with good infection prevention and control practices.
Meals are freshly prepared on-site, nutritious, and residents have choice at mealtimes.
Staff respect residents' privacy and dignity, knocking before entering rooms.
There is good access to medical and allied health professionals, including regular GP visits.

What needed to improve

Unlocked sluice rooms were found open during the day, posing safety risks.
Care plans for residents with responsive behaviours lacked detail and were not always followed.
Incident analysis had generic action plans that did not address specific issues.
Some maintenance issues such as a loose pest control light and a missing en-suite door handle.

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Fair Deal price

Registration conditions

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