Presbyterian Aged Care (PAC) has announced a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company, Olivia Wood will be taking the position following the departure of former CEO of 14 years, Paul Sadler.
September 13, 2021
Owen Lednor has been appointed director of care at the 120-bed residential aged care facility at The Shoreline in Coffs Harbour. The first stages of the $150 million development are due to open in mid-2022.
September 13, 2021
A serial rest home thief went on a shopping spree after stealing bankcards and cash from an Upper Hutt rest home resident and a school principal, wracking up nearly $1000 in fraudulent purchases. Krystal Janet Marie Pearce, 36, appeared at the Hutt Valley District Court on Wednesday in relation to two charges of burglary and two counts of taking, obtaining or using a document for pecuniary advantage. Court documents state she committed the burglaries at the Mercy Villas and St Joseph’s School on December 10, 2020 and then spent $994.62 in total, on grocery and tobacco items, later the same day using the bank cards’ Paywave function. She was due to be sentenced on Wednesday for the thefts, after pleading guilty at an earlier court hearing, but the matter was adjourned until October 12 so that she could finish an alcohol and drug treatment programme. Mercy Villas provides income-related rental accommodation for older people.The facility was an orphanage before being converted into a rest home for retired Catholic nuns from the order of the Sisters of Mercy in the 1980s. St Joseph’s School is a Catholic primary school. Pearce walked into the rest home through its main doors about 1.40pm and entered the bedroom of her first victim, the police summary of facts said. She took the elderly woman’s wallet, which contained $100 cash, her driver’s licence and bankcards, before heading to Burger King and making a purchase of $89.40 using the card. Over the next few hours, she made several trips to Countdown Maidstone on Russell St, in Upper Hutt and the nearby Caltex and Challenge Moonshine petrol stations to buy multiple packets of cigarettes and tobacco, $77.47 worth of 91 octane fuel, a blue V energy drink, a bottle of banana Primo flavoured milk, spearmint gum and Vodafone and Spark phone top up cards, using the bankcard’s Paywave function. About 7.50pm, Pearce walked into the school principal’s office through an unlocked door and removed his cellphone and brown wallet from his desk.
September 13, 2021
Medibank Private Pty Ltd will put up a defence to a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Deputy President Mansini in Chambers in Melbourne (Burrows).
September 13, 2021
Disability Services Australia has a quartet of s.526 (application to deal with a dispute involving stand down) to answer in front of Commissioner Johns (by telephone) in Sydney (Aitken, Faavae, Owen, Papalii).
September 10, 2021
The Good Shepherd Home has a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) to answer before Deputy President Asbury (in Chambers) in Brisbane (Roach).
September 9, 2021
The executive director of strategy, services and innovation, at health and disability services NGO Royal Far West (RFW) Katherine Burchfield has been appointed as the next CEO of NPS MedicineWise, beginning next month. Ms Burchfield is taking over from adjunct associate professor Steve Morris, who is returned to South Australia to head up Arthritis SA.
September 9, 2021
Grant Thornton has installed a new national leader for its not-for-profit industry vertical. Bhavesh Narsey has been with Grant Thornton since 2012, when he joined the accounting and consulting firm from BDO, which he served for over a decade in Australia, the UK and US. Now, a month after being promoted into the firm’s partnership, Narsey has now been handed the lead for the not-for-profit group, taking the reins from Simon Hancox.
