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Highgate: Last resident leaves Mary Feilding Guild care home | Hampstead Highgate Express

The new owner said it hoped to share redevelopment plans in the near future - Credit: Polly Hancock All residents have now left the Mary Feilding Guild care home in Highgate.  The final pensioner packed their bags on Thursday (May 6) after the new owner decided to close the home, which has been renamed Highgate House. Highgate Care took over from Mary Feilding Guild in March and immediately announced it was to close the facility, giving 16 residents aged between 85 and 104 until the end of May to move on.   The closure drew widespread criticism including from residents, their families, local MP Catherine West, Highgate councillor Liz Morris, the Highgate Society, the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum, local church leaders, and elderly care experts.  

Highgate: Mary Feilding Guild to close from Legionella | Hampstead Highgate Express

Residents outside the Mary Feilding Guild - Credit: Polly Hancock The final residents at Mary Feilding Guild are set to be moved out next week – despite the owner’s claims of “unsafe” levels of Legionella being disputed by health experts.   Highgate Care said it had been advised by Public Health England that the most recent sample scores of bacteria at the home – “over 100” – were “of concern” and that the safe level for a care home is zero.   But Public Health England told this newspaper no samples above 100 have been reported in recent water sample testing at the care home.  Highgate Care has come under fire for announcing its closure of the home – now renamed Highgate House – when it took over in March. It told 16 residents aged between 85 and 104 they had to find a new home by the of end of May.  

Mary Feilding Guild: Experts warn over residents health | Hampstead Highgate Express

Resident Dr Jean Scott, 88, read a statement in front of her fellow residents - Credit: Polly Hancock Elderly care experts have made grave warnings over the impact of the sudden closure of Mary Feilding Guild on residents’ physical and mental health.   Sixteen pensioners have been told they must leave the home by the end of May, after the charitable trust sold the site to a private company, Highgate Care, on March 4.  An old age psychiatrist from Crouch End feared the shock of moving residents from the Highgate care home, who are aged between 85 and 104, could be a serious health risk.  

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