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Nursing home brings 50 jobs

A MAJOR new private nursing home opened in Ballymoney yesterday creating 50 full and part-time jobs. The purpose-built st James' Lodge Private Nursing Home features 44 individual suites, 20 of them specialist dementia care rooms and 24 for frail older people.

It was officially opened by Dr John Johnston, a highly respected retired Ballymoney doctor, who revealed that the site on which the new home sits was once a doctor's surgery with adjoining private dwellings, then a bed and breakfast and later a hotel-cum-restaurant. st James' Lodge Ltd has developed the two-storey building, which is located at coleraine road in the town. Each of the 44 suites has an en-suite wet room and there's a hairdressing room and a selection of lounge areas on each floor.