ABC and Anne Connolly trolling for ‘bad news’ is ‘contemptible’
Last Friday at 10.29 AM the ABC’s Anne Connolly sent out an email calling on the families of aged care…
Browsing: In the Headlines
The DCM Institute provides Covid-19 tools and resources to Village Managers and Operators
Jodie Prosser, Tania Kelly and Jill Donaldson have created a wide range of tools and resources and made them available…
National Cabinet expands coronavirus testing criteria to aged care staff and residents
The Cabinet has agreed anyone who has a fever or acute respiratory infection and meets one of the following criteria…
Government to draft in 1,000 retired RNs to treat coronavirus patients
Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced up to $1 million funding for the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) to provide…
Department of Health warns aged care providers of delays in PPE and only masks available – says aged care staff do not need to wear PPE unless providing care to suspected coronavirus cases
The Department says it can only provide masks at this stage with other PPE (including a gown, surgical mask, eye…
Royal Commission extends deadline for aged care submissions to 30 June 2020
The closing date for submissions has been extended by two months to 30 June 2020 after the recent announcement that…
Coronavirus cases at BaptistCare’s Dorothy Henderson Lodge reach 18 – with resident at its adjacent retirement village testing positive
Three weeks after the first report of an infected worker at BaptistCare’s Macquarie Park aged care home, the home has…
Department of Health suspends face-to-face ACATs and RAS assessments – CHSP to be provided without an assessment in “urgent” situations
The Department of Health has moved to telephone and telehealth aged care assessments for ACAT assessments for residential and home…
Royal Commission Chair warns against “unintended consequences” of restrictions on aged care visits – calls on providers to use staff to provide ‘touch’
The Chair of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Hon Gaetano Pagone QC (pictured above), has…
Example from the field of one operator’s COVID-19 precautions
We will deliver a special newsletter sharing tools for village operators and managers. In the meantime we have given below…