The Elms Care Home
Elm Drive, Louth, LN11 0DE · Lincolnshire · East Midlands
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: The Elms Care Home, Four Seasons (DFK) Limited, deregistered 29 Jun 2016.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 7 years old, and 4 of this operator's 10 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 2 May 2019, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Highgate Care Services Ltd's 10 rated services, 4 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 86
- Registered with CQC
- 23 May 2016
- Run by
- Highgate Care Services Ltd
- Part of
- North Bay Group · 50 services
- Phone
- 01507350100
- Website
- www.highgatecare.co.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home with nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 2 May 2019 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 2 May 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 2 May 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 2 May 2019 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 2 May 2019 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to Highgate Care Services Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Cranswick Lodge | Requires improvement, published 18 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Figham House | Requires improvement, published 21 Feb 2025 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Foresters Lodge | Requires improvement, published 19 Jun 2026 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Highgate Home Care | Good, published 7 Apr 2026 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Maple Lodge Care Home | Good, published 10 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | North Yorkshire |
| Oaktree Hall & Lodge | Good, published 30 May 2024 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| The Grange | Good, published 11 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Darlington |
| The Lawns Care Home | Good, published 6 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Darlington |
| The Limes | Requires improvement, published 12 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes with nursing within 10 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Stewton House Nursing Homeabout 1 mile · Louth · 48 bedsRequires improvement, published 12 Apr 2024
- The Wolds Care Centreabout 1 mile · Louth · 66 bedsNot yet rated
- The Wolds Care Centreabout 1 mile · Louth · 66 bedsRequires improvement, published 30 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- South Wold Nursing Homeabout 8.7 miles · Horncastle · 16 bedsGood, published 1 Jul 2025
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-2656875693
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.