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Care home

The Lodge

Beebee Road, Wednesbury, WS10 9RX · Sandwell · West Midlands

8 beds · operated by Pharos Care Limited, part of City and County Healthcare Group

CQC overall rating
Good12 Jun 2026

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (12 Jun 2026), and 4 of this operator's 6 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement12 Jun 2026
Operator's wider portfolio
4 of 6 of Pharos Care Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement12 Jun 2026
EffectiveGood12 Jun 2026
CaringGood12 Jun 2026
ResponsiveGood12 Jun 2026
Well-ledGood12 Jun 2026

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 9 other locations

Other active services registered to Pharos Care Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Ash HouseRequires improvement18 Jun 2026Walsall
Highfield HouseRequires improvement16 Jun 2026Walsall
Katherine HouseRequires improvement3 Aug 2023Birmingham
Pharos Black CountryNot RatedBirmingham
Pharos East MidlandsNot yet ratedStaffordshire
Pharos Supported Services CentralNot yet ratedBirmingham
Pharos Supported Services WarwickshireNot yet ratedWarwickshire
Sutton HouseRequires improvement28 Oct 2023Birmingham
The Boat HouseGood18 Aug 2023Staffordshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
6 May 2011
Beds
8
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-198023491

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.