Duffryn Ffrwd Manor

Duffryn Ffrwd Manor is a Welsh care-home operator trading as Duffryn Ffrwd Manor Nursing and Residential Care Homes, with its registered office and main site at Old Nantgarw Road, Nantgarw, in the Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough, on the border of Cardiff and Caerphilly. The business is locally owned and has operated since 1996, when the nursing home opened; a purpose-built residential care home followed in 2000. The two homes together form the Duffryn Ffrwd Manor group, which provides nursing, residential and dementia care, as well as continuing healthcare and respite care, delivered 24 hours a day by qualified staff. The home occupies a Grade II listed manor building set in three acres of woodland, with wheelchair-friendly walkways, two pond areas and picnic seating. The site sits about five minutes from junction 32 of the M4 and has easy access to the A470, making it reachable from Cardiff, Caerphilly and the wider South Wales valleys. The grounds are planted with ancient oaks, giant poplars and a weeping willow, and the home keeps in-house pets, including a rabbit and a cat, as part of its residential environment. Services are organised around individualised, person-centred care plans. Each resident is assigned a key worker, and the homes provide 24-hour call-bell systems in all rooms including toilets and bathrooms, lifts, bath hoists, stair lifts and wheelchair access, a comprehensive laundry service, visiting hairdressers and chiropodists, religious services of choice, organised events and activities, outside space, newspaper and magazine delivery, car parking and visitor accommodation. Dedicated finance, administration and in-house maintenance teams support residents and their families. The brand positions itself on "exceptional care in a beautiful setting," emphasising compassion, dignity and respect, and treating residents as part of an extended family. It is regulated in Wales by Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), and publishes its CIW annual return and latest inspection report through its website. The company is privately held and locally owned rather than part of a national care-home chain, and it recruits care staff through a careers section on its site.

Duffryn Ffrwd Manor takes its name from the historic manor building in which the care home operates. The manor is a Grade II listed building in Rhondda Cynon Taf, set back from the road, with modern housing now occupying parts of its former grounds to the east and west. The listed status reflects the architectural and historic interest of the building, which the care operator has adapted for contemporary residential and nursing use. The care business itself dates from 1996, when the nursing home opened. The company describes itself as locally owned since that year, indicating that it has remained in local hands rather than being absorbed into a national care-home group. In 2000, a purpose-built residential care home was added alongside the original nursing home, giving the site two distinct homes under the Duffryn Ffrwd Manor name. The home is located on the border of Cardiff, Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf, five minutes from junction 32 of the M4 with easy access to the A470. Its three-acre woodland grounds, with wheelchair-friendly walkways, two pond areas and seating for picnics, have become part of its identity, and the operator markets the site as "exceptional care in a beautiful setting." Over the years the service range has expanded beyond core nursing and residential care to include dementia care, continuing healthcare and respite care, supported by activity coordinators in both homes, dedicated finance and administration teams, and an in-house maintenance team. The homes are regulated in Wales by Care Inspectorate Wales, and the operator publishes its CIW annual return and latest inspection report through its website. The business continues to trade as Duffryn Ffrwd Manor Ltd from its Nantgarw address.

• 2000

  Purpose-built residential care home opened alongside the nursing home.

• 1996

  Nursing home opened; business described as locally owned since this year.

Locally owned, person-centred nursing, residential and dementia care in a Grade II listed manor set in three acres of South Wales woodland.

• Nursing care

  24-hour individual care by qualified and experienced staff with a dedicated key worker system.

• Residential care

  Residential support in a purpose-built home opened in 2000.

• Dementia care

  Residential dementia care with individualised care plans and key workers.

• Continuing Healthcare

  Continuing Healthcare provision to meet a wide range of individual needs.

• Respite care

  Short-term respite care for families and carers.

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2. 2About Usduffrynffrwdmanor.co.uk
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4. 4Duffryn Ffrwd Manorwikidata.org