News 
£4.7 million care home opens its doors
20 January 2012
A new luxury care home in Alloa officially opens today, (Friday, 20th January) creating more than 100 jobs.
Parklands, the state-of-the-art, purpose-built care home in Alloa Park Drive represents a £4.7million investment by Meallmore, one of Scotland’s leading providers of nursing and residential care.
Marshall Construction will hand over the keys to the 62-bed home that will offer nursing care for frail elderly people, with specialist services for people who suffer from dementia and its related conditions.
Care home manager Julie Wyllie said: “It is a huge boost to the Forth Valley area to have a care facility of this standard and quality, and it will be a great benefit to the whole community.”
The development includes an activity and reminiscence room, six dining rooms to offer greater choice, as well as a hair and beauty salon for residents.
Gerry Hennessey, Managing Director of Meallmore Ltd, said: “Parklands has been designed to offer the highest-quality facilities for our residents. We have been inundated with applications for the jobs that we have created, from nursing and care staff, to hotel services and catering jobs. This has allowed us to put together a fantastic professional team to give our residents the highest standard of care. We are excited to be able to start welcoming people to what we hope will be a home away from home at Parklands.”
Meallmore now has 19 homes in Scotland for elderly and frail people.
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Notes to editors:
1. Parklands is at 60 Alloa Park Drive, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, FK10 1QY.
2. Meallmore Ltd opened the doors of its first nursing home for the elderly 25 years ago in Daviot, just south of Inverness.
3. Meallmore has evolved as one of the country’s leading providers of nursing and residential care, with 19 care homes throughout Scotland. Sixteen of these are for elderly and frail residents, while three are for people with mental health conditions.
4. The company is owned and operated by the Hennessey family along with a dedicated management team, including registered nurses and social care workers whose expertise is evident in the excellent standard of care provided by each of the homes.
