Alderwood Care Home
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Alderwood Care Home offers a warm and welcoming environment for residents, providing a range of care services tailored to individual needs. The home is…
- Care home
- Alderwood Care Home
- Location
- Colchester, Essex, Colchester, CO1 1ZP
- Care types
- Nursing, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Outstanding
- Latest CQC inspection
- 4 November 2020
- Beds
- 65
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Phone
- 01206 123456
- CQC location ID
- 1-244876318
Rated 5/5 from 4 Google reviews.
What families say
Families praise the care team at Alderwood Care Home for providing exceptional and compassionate care, particularly in end-of-life situations. The care home manager is noted for taking a personal interest in residents and their families, ensuring they are well-informed and supported. The staff are described as going…
What the CQC says
Rated Outstanding by the CQC on 19 May 2018.
Outstanding — the service is performing exceptionally well. What this rating means
The five key questions
- Safe
- Good — Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
- Effective
- Good — Does the care achieve good outcomes and follow best practice?
- Caring
- Outstanding — Are staff kind, respectful and compassionate?
- Responsive
- Outstanding — Is care organised around each person’s needs?
- Well-led
- Outstanding — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Overall rating improved from Good to Outstanding (previously rated September 2016).
- Improved: Caring (Good → Outstanding), Well-led (Good → Outstanding).
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 14 September 2026.
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