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.
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.
Monday, 10 May 2021, 3:29 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) 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.
Early one morning the man had
an unwitnessed fall in his room. A caregiver called the
on-call registered nurse and monitored the man. Later that
morning another caregiver called the on-call registered
nurse and the man was transferred to hospital. He was