WINNER - 2020,18,17,16 & 2015 FINALIST - 2019 Best Aged Care (Med/Large) Facility - SI
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WINNER - 2020,18,17,16 & 2015 FINALIST - 2019 Best Aged Care (Med/Large) Facility - SI
Archer Beckenham Care Home offers a warm and friendly environment at all levels of care. We provide hospital and rest home resident-centred care and activities for everyone as part of village life alongside our special character of caring and compassion.
This business is part of Archer Villages & Care Homes.
Archer Home offers rest home care in Beckenham, Christchurch, and is part of the Archer family. We are locally owned as a charitable Trust, and have been serving our community for nearly 70-years.
We have four lifestyle villages and two sites offering day care programmes and full-time care.
No. of Beds 54
Staff have been with us for many years. We have a family focus and staff see their roles as 'guests' in the residents home
'loving life' is our goal for our residents. To engage and enrich our residents in their every day living. many residents are involved with the running of our homes.
(Last Updated: 2nd September 2024)
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Archer Beckenham Care Home
Canterbury District Health Board
Audit Certification period: 36 months (Good)
Certificate renewal date: 6th September, 2025
Auditor: Health and Disability Auditing New Zealand Limited
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All rest homes and aged residential care facilities are certified and audited to ensure they:
Certification / Surveillance Audits
Certification audits happen every 1–4 years. After the audit, rest homes are certified for a set period of time (the exact length depends on how well the rest home performed at the certification audit). Once this time is up, the rest home must be re-audited and its certification renewed.
An unannounced spot audit (also called a surveillance audit) happens around the middle of a rest home’s certification period. The spot audit ensures progress has been made on outstanding areas identified in the earlier certification audit and that standards haven’t slipped.
In addition to audits, rest homes have to report to their DHB on how they are addressing issues found at audit. These improvements are then verified at the next audit event.
Other types of audit
Provisional audits happen when a provider purchases a certified rest home from another provider.
Partial provisional audits happen when a provider wants to add services to their certificate (eg, a rest home adding hospital-level care), when a new rest home is built, or when a provider adds capacity or reconfigures their services (eg, builds a new wing, upgrades rooms). Before 2014, audits for adding capacity or reconfiguring services were referred to as verification audits.
Ministry inspections
Rest homes may have unannounced inspections by the Ministry under the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 in the event of a serious complaint.
DHB issues-based audits
DHBs can conduct issues-based audits under the Aged Related Residential Care Contract. For information on these audits please contact the relevant DHB.