A medical worker is fighting for life after being bashed outside a Melbourne hospital during an argument. The man in his 40s was walking into the Box Hill Hospital on Tuesday night when an argument broke out between him and another man, who bashed him before fleeing, Victoria Police say. He was a staff member at the hospital and at his family’s request no further information will be provided, an Eastern Health spokeswoman said.
June 1, 2017
A woman has suffered second and third degree burns in a fire which broke out in nursing home in Tamworth on Tuesday night. Emergency services were called to Nazareth House off Manilla Rd at Oxley Vale to reports of a blaze about 8.30pm. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in one of the bedrooms. A 55-year-old resident suffered second and third degree burns to 15 per cent of her body including her face and arms, police confirmed. She was assessed by paramedics and taken to Tamworth hospital.
June 1, 2017
Metlifecare has named Richard Thomson, Air New Zealand’s general manager commercial, as chief financial officer starting in mid-September.
May 31, 2017
Jewish Care Victoria Inc will fight a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) initiated by a staff member (Hantke).
May 31, 2017
Doutta Galla Aged Services Limited is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Hussein).
May 31, 2017
Uniting Agewell Victoria is facing a s.365 – Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal (Wakelam).
May 31, 2017
Thompson Healthcare Pty Ltd is continuing to resist a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) application by an ex-staffer (Adamopoulos).
May 31, 2017
Oakden mental health nursing home had too few staff to watch all patients at night, a former nurse has told the inquest into an Adelaide man’s death after he was attacked by another resident with dementia. The 2008 death of Graham Rollbusch, 70, at the Makk and McLeay nursing home is under investigation by coroner Mark Johns. The inquest was earlier told Mr Rollbusch was found face down in his room in a pool of his own blood and dementia patient Peter Palmer, 84, was found in a nearby alcove with blood on his hands. He was charged with murder but died before a trial. Registered nurse Danilo Valdez Laurente worked on the night of Mr Rollbusch’s death, and told the coroner it was usual practice to have three staff on a night shift. The inquest previously heard Mr Palmer was known to be verbally and physically abusive towards staff and other residents and would wander around the ward at night. Mr Laurente said a staff member would keep watch on Mr Palmer from the nurses’ station. When questioned by Mr Johns about how Mr Palmer was monitored while all three staff members conducted rounds, Mr Laurente conceded they could not watch him continuously. Mr Laurente was asked if enough staff were rostered on night shift and responded: “In my view, no.” He said four or five more staff were needed at night. The inquest previously heard Mr Palmer was twice-before violent towards Mr Rollbusch ahead of the attack that led to his death. Mr Laurente told the court Mr Palmer had been moved to an “isolation room” due to his aggressive behaviour up to three weeks before Mr Rollbusch died.
