Elderly residents had to leave their rooms at a Melbourne aged care facility overnight when a fire started in roof space above one resident’s room. Firefighters brought the blaze under control in 20 minutes but stayed behind to assist transport 23 residents to alternative lodgings, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade said. Transport ambulances helped move some residents off the Doncaster East site but no one was injured.
August 13, 2018
A nurse in Townsville Hospital’s secure mental health unit is under investigation for supplying a patient with a hunting knife. A source said a nurse brought in what they described as “a large hunting knife” and gave it to a patient who was cooking food, but then left the patient unsupervised with the potential weapon. Staff at the nurses station were “shocked” when the patient presented them with the knife. It’s the latest in a string of controversies to rock the Townsville Hospital services.
August 13, 2018
St Johns Community Care Program Ltd has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane chambers (Nichols).
August 10, 2018
Due to the federal government’s aged care funding freeze, Southern Cross Care — the organisation who runs Assumption Villa in Leeton — has had to cut 128 staff working.
August 10, 2018
A NSW woman has been charged with murder after her 92-year-old mother was found dead at an aged care home in the Southern Highlands. The 67-year-old was arrested by Southern Highlands police following the death of the mother at the facility in Bundanoon on Sunday night. She was charged and refused bail to appear at Goulburn Local Court on Thursday.
August 10, 2018
The Health Services Union and The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne will debate a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 12.30pm
August 10, 2018
Monash Health has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with which it must deal in front of Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Mills).
August 10, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from EMROC Pty Ltd T/A Genesis Cancer Care for the Genesis Cancer Care Victoria Medical Physicists Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 8 August 2018.
