Staff at the disgraced Oakden aged-care home were manipulative, incompetent and would sabotage any efforts to improve standards in the lead-up to the 2008 murder of resident Graham Rollbusch, an inquest has heard. On Wednesday, State Coroner Mark Johns was told the Oakden facility — which was today slammed by ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander in a report — had been described by temporary nurses as “a zoo”. Mr Johns is holding an inquest into the death of palliative care patient Mr Rollbusch, 70, who was attacked by dementia sufferer Peter Palmer in early 2008.
March 1, 2018
Loewn Steel and business advisory leader Marc Makrid will both join the ECH board.
March 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Tenterfield Care Centre Limited for its The Tenterfield Care Centre Limited NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Melbourne on 28 February 2018,.
March 1, 2018
Three former Damascus College students are among just 15 school leavers offered places in the Australian Catholic University’s Bachelor of Physiotherapy course in Ballarat. There are 48 students from across the country enrolled in the first year of the four-year full-time course, and all but 15 are mature age students or have transferred across from other degrees.
March 1, 2018
Dr Isaac Hohaia is the new director of medical services in the South Burnett with the Darling Downs Hospital and Health service. He will oversee Kingaroy, Nanango, Wondai and Cherbourg hospitals.
March 1, 2018
A grandmother was left with broken bones after a fellow resident in an up-market nursing homeattacked her for “speaking loudly’’. Martha Dapontes suffered more injuries when staff found her on the floor after three “unwitnessed falls’’ that left her with broken ribs. St Vincent’s Care Services at Mitchelton has installed surveillance cameras in the wake of the attack, which is under investigation by the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner.
March 1, 2018
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in Court 3 in Melbourne this morning.
March 1, 2018
Emergency services have treated an elderly woman after her car crashed into a building in Toowoomba. Initial reports suggested the incident occurred at a retirement village on Ruthven St in Kearneys Spring.
