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Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) assessment trial and 2020 Aged Care Approval Rounds both paused for at least six months post image

Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) assessment trial and 2020 Aged Care Approval Rounds both paused for at least six months

Department of Health suspends face-to-face ACATs and RAS assessments – CHSP to be provided without an assessment in “urgent” situations post image

Department of Health suspends face-to-face ACATs and RAS assessments – CHSP to be provided without an assessment in “urgent” situations

How can aged care providers claim the Government’s new “retention bonus” for staff? post image

How can aged care providers claim the Government’s new “retention bonus” for staff?

Coronavirus hits two WA land lease communities in Mandurah post image

Coronavirus hits two WA land lease communities in Mandurah

BaptistCare resident at retirement village next to Dorothy Henderson Lodge tests positive for COVID-19 – four coronavirus cases now at Opal’s Bankstown aged care home post image

BaptistCare resident at retirement village next to Dorothy Henderson Lodge tests positive for COVID-19 – four coronavirus cases now at Opal’s Bankstown aged care home

US: CDC report on Washington state nursing home finds screening for symptoms failed to identify up to 50% of residents with COVID-19 post image

US: CDC report on Washington state nursing home finds screening for symptoms failed to identify up to 50% of residents with COVID-19

Support for NSW & QLD Operators post image

Support for NSW & QLD Operators

ABC journalist Anne Connolly fishing for ‘bad news’ on the coronavirus in aged care homes post image

ABC journalist Anne Connolly fishing for ‘bad news’ on the coronavirus in aged care homes

Dorothy Henderson Lodge – 18 positive coronavirus cases now diagnosed post image

Dorothy Henderson Lodge – 18 positive coronavirus cases now diagnosed

Royal Commission Chair warns against “unintended consequences” of restrictions on aged care visits – calls on providers to use staff to provide ‘touch’ post image

Royal Commission Chair warns against “unintended consequences” of restrictions on aged care visits – calls on providers to use staff to provide ‘touch’

Bupa and Opal Aged Care stop all visits to their 150 aged care homes over COVID-19 post image

Bupa and Opal Aged Care stop all visits to their 150 aged care homes over COVID-19

Aged care providers told to have all staff vaccinated against flu by 1 May – four weeks away – or face penalties post image

Aged care providers told to have all staff vaccinated against flu by 1 May – four weeks away – or face penalties