The Care Home Boss Who Saved His Resdients' Lives

Charity chief had no Covid deaths at his 6 homes by acting early and refusing untested hospital patients. He slams Goverment for deadly errors and says a national care service will mend the broken system

- Vivienne Aitken

Charity boss Mark Adams saved lives by locking down his care homes two weeks early and refusing to take patients from hospitals because they had not been tested.

To date, no patients in Community Integrated Care’s six homes or almost 100 supported living accommodation properties in Scotland has died from Covid.

Charity CEO Adams said: “When we stopped people visiting two weeks before lockdown, we were getting lawyer’s letters complaining about breaches of human rights. Three weeks later, when they saw what was happening in care homes, those same people wrote to thank us for moving so quickly.

“Hospitals were clearing wards but we refused under any circumstances to take people from hospitals. Without testing, how could you move someone from somewhere Covid had been in the building to somewhere it hadn’t?”

None of his Scots care home residents have had to be hospitalised and while a few from supported living have been in hospital for Covid, all have recovered.