Vic: Troubled aged care hostel to close
MELBOURNE, April 10 AAP - Troubled Melbourne aged care facility Girrawheen CommunityHostel is to close.
UnitingCare today informed the residents, their families and staff the facility wouldclose in September.
Recent government inspections of the hostel and the Uniting Church's nearby GirrawheenNursing Home have found numerous problems with the standard of care of the residents.
Girrawheen Community Hostel, in bayside Brighton, was stripped of federal funding inJanuary after a government inspection found it failed 14 of 44 care standards.
The snap inspection found staff were were failing to properly record medication administered.
Restrictions were placed on the nursing home late last year after it failed to meet32 of the 44 standards.
UnitingCare Victorian director Colleen Pearce today said the 35 Girrawheen CommunityHostel residents would have first priority at the church's other aged care facilities.
The nearby nursing home and independent living facilities will remain open.
Ms Pearce said the 1960s hostel buildings required extensive and expensive renovationsto meet the federal government's building certification requirements.
In the long term, she said, the building would have compromised resident safety.
A UnitingCare spokesman later said the hostel staff would also be transferred, althougha small number might be offered redundancy packages.
The Heath Services Union of Australia (HSUA) called on UnitingCare to guarantee itwould find other jobs for all the Girrawheen Community Hostel staff.
The Uniting Church operates 30 aged care facilities in Victoria and more than 300 nationwide.
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