ACQA Reports St. John's Aged Care Failures

ACQA Reports St. John's Aged Care Failures - Melbourne Age in an article by Michael Bachelard and Ebony Bowden reports -

Ten flu deaths at nursing home amid serious management failure

"A fatal flu outbreak at a Wangaratta nursing home, where 10 residents died of influenza and two others from respiratory illness, was worsened by serious management failures, a scathing government audit has found.

In response, the St John's Village nursing home accepted the resignation of its own former acting care services manager and referred him to his professional body for potential sanction.

A federal government audit of the St John's Village home, which was ordered after the catastrophic outbreak, has found it took days after infections began in August for management to report the outbreak."

Read the detailed article here:- http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ten-flu-deaths-at-nursing-home-amid-serious-management-failure-20171113-gzk29h.html

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