Monday, 3 May 2021, 1:58 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding a residential aged care facility
in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of
an elderly man who was paralysed and had
dementia.
During the man’s admission to the
facility, he developed serious pressure wounds, and required
hospitalisation for urinary tract infections. Sadly, he died
approximately six months after admission to the
facility.
The facility is owned and operated by
Oceania Care Company Limited (Oceania). Previously the man
had lived at home, where his wife was his primary
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Media release from the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Monday 3 May 2021, 04:41 PM
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Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding a counsellor in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for developing a personal relationship with her client, who was a prisoner.
The counsellor provided counselling to the man from May 2017 until his transfer to another prison in April 2018.
From January to April 2018, the man telephoned the counsellor on 56 occasions. The conversations were recorded and were personal and domestic in nature.
When the man was transferred from the second prison to a residential facility, both he and the counsellor told staff at the facility and the man’s probation officer that they were in an intimate relationship. The counsellor visited the man and sent him gifts and money.