1 April 2021 1:15pm
Jill Taylor Nikitakis, Fronditha Care President and Board Chair, addressed over 50 members who attended an information session on Tuesday 30 March, 2021 at Fronditha Care Mulgrave Hub.
She noted that the past few months, since the appointment of new Directors in late November 2020, had been a time of a transition for Fronditha Care: “The new Board set about consolidating changes to governance arrangements in December and appointed new CEO, Faye Spiteri in February 2021, to address the serious financial challenges faced. She added: “The new Directors have the requisite financial expertise in service delivery, governance and connection to community to swiftly move the organisation in the direction it needed to go. We introduced new measures to ensure strong financial governance and rapidly set about working with the CEO in implementing organisational change to deliver financial sustainability.”
4 February 2021 10:30am
Fronditha Care this week announced the appointment of Faye Spiteri (Tsolakis) as CEO following the recent resignation of Michael Malakonas.
Fronditha Care President and Board Chair, Jill Taylor (Nikitakis) said, “Faye is an exceptional leader who brings very relevant and diverse skills and experience to the role. She is an accomplished executive with a demonstrated successful track record in leadership roles across the government, corporate and for purpose sectors.”
Ms Taylor confirmed how vitally important it was to the Board to appoint a new CEO with deep knowledge of the business and someone who could act swiftly to recalibrate the organisation which has been transparent about the significant financial and strategic challenges it is currently facing. In November, the gruop released its latest annual report, highlighting the organisation’s milestones for 2019-2020 but also recorded a $6.5 million deficit.
Aged care watchdog founds 15 nursing homes to be flouting COVID-19 rules after the pandemic killed hundreds of elderly residents A resident is taken away in an ambulance from Epping Gardens Aged Care Facility last year. Photo: AAP/Daniel Pockett
2 February 2021 1:12pm
Months after the coronavirus pandemic swept through aged care homes killing more than 600 elderly residents, government inspectors have uncovered COVID-19 breaches in 15 nursing homes.
Auditors from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) “observed numerous examples” of staff breaching guidelines of the Victorian Health and Human Services for infection control in a performance review written last month.
St Basil’s home in Fawkner, operating under the aegis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, was found in a follow-up audit in July to not have a pandemic management plan “complete in readiness for future outbreaks” despite the fact that 45 of its residents had died of COVID-19 last ye
16 December 2020 4:43pm
Fronditha Care has appointed new Directors to its Board leadership team.
The new team includes Jill Taylor (Nikitakis), re-elected at the recent AGM for another three-year term, who is the new President and Board Chair. Kostas Kyrifidis has retained the role of Treasurer, with newly elected directors Dr. Stella Laletas taking on the role of Vice President and Kostas Livadaras becoming Company Secretary. The Board has also co-opted John Kallitsas as a Director, who has a long- standing relationship with Fronditha Care and is a benefactor.
Ms Taylor said: “I am energised by the talent of the new Directors who with their diverse professional backgrounds bring significant understanding of the not-for-profit sector and specifically deep knowledge of the aged care sector, substantial business acumen with exceptional human resource management skills and extensive governance expertise to the Board.”