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Woman in 20s with quadriplegia suffers blister burns due to lack of care 10 May, 2021 03:42 AM 2 minutes to read A woman living with spastic quadriplegia suffered blistering burns due to neglected care. Photo / 123rf Emma Russell is a health reporter for the New Zealand [email protected] A woman in her 20s living with quadriplegia and unable to talk suffered extensive blister burns from urine after a nurse neglected her care for 12 hours. A report, released today, reveals Christchurch-based community care home, St John of God Hauora Trust (SJOG), and the nurse were in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights for the failure. ....
It also did not provide any reasonable explanation for doing so. Because of this, the report instead focused on the rest home’s limited participation and lack of co-operation, which found it had breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights by undermining the investigation. The report showed the man who died had a complex medical history, including brain injury, stroke and prostate cancer. About 7am he had an unwitnessed fall in his room and a caregiver called the on-call registered nurse who monitored him. About 11am another caregiver called the on-call registered nurse, and the man was taken to hospital. ....
Monday, 10 May 2021, 3:25 pm 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 failing to maintain professional boundaries with a woman in his care. The woman attended a counselling session with the counsellor and at that appointment they discussed her difficulty with finding housing. The counsellor offered the woman a room to rent at his home on the basis that she could have no further counselling sessions with him if she accepted. The woman moved into the counsellor’s residence and she received no ....
A rest home has been found to have failed an elderly man in its care 10 May 2021 The man was transferred to hospital from Armourdene Rest Home in Hamilton, with a fractured hip after a fall. He died a few days later. The man s sister-in-law was concerned about the care he received, including the management of his fall, and complained to Health and Disability Commissioner. Deputy Commissioner Rose Wall says Armourdene refused to provide the relevant information including the man s clinical records. She says as a result, it breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights. ....
Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner 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) for failures in its care of an elderly man. The man had a complex … 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) for failures in its care of an elderly man. The man had a complex medical history and was a resident at Armourdene Rest Home (Armourdene), owned by Wilding International Limited. ....