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