:MMCG

{{Short description|British elderly care provider}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{COI|date=August 2020}}

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| industry = Care for elderly and mentally impaired people

| founded = 1996 in Leeds

| founder = Phil Burgan

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The Maria Mallaband Care Group (MMCG) is an English company providing care for elderly and mentally impaired people. It was established in Leeds in 1996 by Phil Burgan, a former pharmacist, who remains CEO; it was named after his grandmother. Its services include nursing, day care, respite and palliative care.{{cite web|url=http://www.mmcgcarehomes.co.uk/company/history|title=History|publisher=MMCG|access-date=22 October 2012}}

The group has 27 care homes located in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. The company was ranked 89th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in 2009. {{cite news | url=http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbDetails.asp?siteID=1&compID=2247&yr=2009 | work=Sunday Times | title=2009 Fast Track 100 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224055922/http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbDetails.asp?siteID=1&compID=2247&yr=2009 | archive-date=2011-12-24 }} and was listed as one of Britain's fastest growing private companies in 2010.{{cite news | url=http://realbusiness.co.uk/hot_100_2010/meet_britains_fastestgrowing_private_companies_5160 | work=Real Business | title=Meet Britain's fastest-growing private companies: 51-60 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510144756/http://realbusiness.co.uk/hot_100_2010/meet_britains_fastestgrowing_private_companies_5160 | archive-date=2012-05-10 }}

The overall enterprise also includes Countrywide Care Homes, Maria Mallaband Care Solutions, and MMCG Living. Overall, there are 76 care homes, 3,200{{nbsp}}residents, more than 4,000{{nbsp}}staff, and an annual turnover of £100{{nbsp}}million.{{cite news| url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/business-news/business-headlines/care_group_growing_in_a_challenged_sector_1_4245309 | work=Yorkshire Evening Post| title=Care group growing in a challenged sector}}

Historically, MMCG provided care for adults with autism or challenging behaviour. In August 2014, that business was demerged into Autism UK Holdings.MMCG Financial Statements for year ending 30 April 2015

In 2012, a resident in a MMCG home was kept in a cold room, and was found to have a body core temperature of {{convert|25|C}} when they died of hypothermia. In 2016, MMCG pleaded guilty to breaking heath and safety rules, and was fined £1.6{{nbsp}}million.{{cite news|title=Care home company fined £1.6m for letting woman freeze to death|first=Nazia|last=Parveen|date=28 September 2016|access-date=28 September 2016|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/28/care-home-maria-mallaband-care-fined-allowing-woman-freeze-death}}{{Cite web |date=2016-09-28 |title=Hypothermia death care home fined £1.6m |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-37498106 |access-date=2020-08-24 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}