The Laurels secure top 20 Care Homes in the East Midlands Award and launch new website

The Laurels, a beautiful 200-year-old Grade II listed residential care home in Market Deeping, was voted by residents and their families as one of the top 20 (out of 1,365) care homes in the region by carehome.co.uk last month. As part of ongoing developments, they have also launched a new website: www.nenevalleycarehomes.co.uk.

Touran and Yasamine Watts, owners of Nene Valley Care Homes (l to r).

Carehome.co.uk is a website listing all registered care homes in the UK and provides important information such as inspection ratings, independent reviews by residents themselves (and family) and fees.

The Laurels scored highly across broad criteria including overall experience, facilities, care/support, cleanliness, treated with dignity, staff, food and drink, activities, safety and security, rooms and value for money.

The Laurels, which was bought in 2023 by mother and daughter team, Yasamine and Touran Watts, has undergone significant restoration and improvement over the last 18 months. The infrastructure of the building has been refurbished with bedrooms being given a new lease of life and there are further plans in the pipeline to restore this historic building to its former glory. They have also just launched a new website providing information on their other two homes, Garden Lodge In Glinton and Florence House in Peterborough.

Yasamine and Touran place great importance on the standard of care they offer their residents. Whilst aesthetics and facilities are vital, they believe that building a relationship with individual residents tailored to their specific needs is of primary importance and this requires trained staff who are able to provide those personal interactions.

Nene Valley Care Homes is absolutely thrilled to be recognised by this award for The Laurels Residential Care Home

Yasamine Watts, owner of the Laurels and Nene Valley Care Homes, comments:

“We are absolutely thrilled to be recognised by this award. We have spent a great deal of time focussing on delivering the best possible care for our residents. Having been trained professionally in delivering care, and dementia care, in hospitals and care homes, my mother has been instrumental in our mission to offer a personal level of care which can be difficult to find in the larger residential homes. Whilst striking a balance of a providing a homely environment with modern facilities in a 200-year-old building has been challenging, we were determined not to compromise! 

By keeping our homes small-scale, we are able to truly understand our residents and care to their individual needs – the type we would wish for. Our staff work tirelessly, and we could not have achieved this without the support of our wonderful carers and managers; thank you! Our work is not complete though – and we shall not be resting on our laurels – as we constantly seek to make improvements including a new website.”

The Laurels is the third and most recent care home privately owned by Yasamine and Touran Watts under the Nene Valley Care Homes’ name. For more information on the care homes in Market Deeping, Glinton and Peterborough, please visit www.nenevalleycarehomes.co.uk.