The Federal Department of Health has imposed sanctions on Hillside at Figtree due to ‘’serious concerns’’ about residents’ safety, health and well-being. An assessment team from the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency identified the concerns during a visit to the aged care provider in mid April, according to a letter received by residents and relatives late last week. As a result, the letter from the health department stated that a number of sanctions had been imposed on Hillside for the next six months.
May 3, 2017
An application for approval of the MIA Victoria Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Deputy President Gostencnik in his Brisbane chambers.
May 3, 2017
A top executive at NSW’s Family and Community Services department has been a director of a company which donated to the Liberal party and sought a casino licence, business ventures an expert says conflict with his public service duties. Public servant Jim Longley is at the centre of a widening charity payments scandal under investigation by NSW Fair Trading. Mr Longley is chief executive of the $3 billion Ageing, Disability and Home Care division and also deputy secretary of the department of Family and Community Services.
May 3, 2017
Estia Health has another (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) fight on its hands (Brackley).
May 3, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Southern Cross Care Broken Hill Limited for its Southern Cross Care Broken Hill Limited, and the ANMF Oasis Staff Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018 has been approved by Commissioner Roe in Melbourne on 2 May 2017.
May 3, 2017
Bupa is facing allegations that its poor care of a resident in Adelaide led to his death. Kevin Williams had been at the Bupa facility at Modbury for 12 weeks, before he died from an infected ulcer on his right hip. His daughter, Jillian Thomson, said he had open wounds, which looked like bed sores, all over him. “One of his hips, the bone was seriously just sticking out … and then his coccyx was black, the skin had died and there was a hole that you could literally see inside of him.” During his stay, Mr Williams’ family claims he was not showered for days and was handled roughly by staff. “He had fingernail cuts in his nose and his mouth. He said they had tried to force his medication in his mouth,” Mrs Thomson said. “I managed to get his shirt off on my own [one day] and on the top part of his right arm, I found a bruise mark with a hand print, it was a hand print. “You couldn’t say it wasn’t, you could see it distinctly, took the other side off and it was exactly the same, like someone had grabbed hold of him and squeezed him so tight.” Mr Williams’ granddaughter, Sharne Thomson, believes the coroner should re-examine his death. The family took their allegations to the coroner in August 2012, when Mr Williams died. They also went to the Federal Government’s Aged Care Complaints Commissioner. Most claims were thrown out due to a lack of evidence but Bupa did give Mr Williams the wrong medication. “We apologise unreservedly for the distress Mr Williams’ family felt and continues to feel,” Bupa said in a statement.
May 3, 2017
Epworth HealthCare is facing a (s.604 – Appeal of decisions) by Naicker before the Full Bench in Court 1 – Level 6 in Melbourne at 11am.
May 3, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders on Level 3, 237 Wharf Road in Newcastle (Cohen).
