A luxury nursing home served food with maggots, let a lady go unshowered for weeks and left a mattress covered in faeces for months after a resident died, complaints to the aged-care watchdog reveal. Wesley Mission’s John Wesley Gardens, which opened in the north Brisbane suburb of Geebung barely a year ago, was the subject of complaints to the Aged Care Complaints Commission (ACCC) about food, cleanliness and quality of care. In confidential findings, the ACCC reveals a resident was served a meal “that contained a maggot or grub”. “The service acknowledges the incident occurred and has put strategies in place (including) … the removal of baby potatoes as a menu item,” the ACCC said in its decision. The ACCC also investigated a complaint that “a resident was not showered for three weeks and was found with a continence aid containing mouldy faeces, vaginal discharge and excess stale urine”.
