Monday, 26 July 2021, 2:07 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding rest home owners Oceania Care
Company Limited in breach of the Code of Health and
Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for
failures in its care of a man who suffered two
falls.
The man had a medical history of poor balance,
severe fatigue, impaired hearing and end-stage renal
failure. At the time of events the man had been a resident
at the rest home for only five days.
The first fall
occurred when a staff member helped the man to the toilet,
and left him alone. The second fall occurred when the man