Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a community support provider and nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failings in their care of a woman with .
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The woman, who was in her 70s, was not able to get in or out of bed on her own.
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall found the Radius Elloughton Gardens rest home in Timaru breached the Code, after the woman suffered serious injuries in their care in 2018.
The woman fell out of bed in 2018 and died days later.
Staff at the Timaru rest home claimed to have been unaware of how the woman suffered multiple fractures, despite an investigation saying it s most likely someone was with her at the time.
The rest home said it had apologised to the family for what happened in 2018.
Monday, 24 May 2021, 2:10 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding a rest home in breach of the Code
of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the
Code) after a woman suffered serious injuries in their care
in 2018.
The woman, who had an intellectual disability
and limited communication skills, was a resident at Radius
Elloughton Gardens in Timaru which is operated by Radius
Residential Care Limited (Radius).
Sometime during the
night or the next morning, the woman suffered a right
shoulder dislocation and fractures on the two bones of her
lower left leg. These injuries were most likely the result