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Nursing home gets all clear
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The Aged Care Standards Agency announced this week that the Mosman Park Nursing Home had regained the accreditation it lost in February. The loss of accreditation followed a staff member's report that he saw maggots in the wound of a resident who had recently been transferred there with several wounds. But the 40-bed nursing home claimed vindication this week when the Aged Care Standards Agency announced that the home now met all 44 of the agency's "outcome standards". The nursing home is accredited until March 2005. Mr Moore said he was delighted by the news, particularly because there was a dire shortage of nursing beds in the western suburbs. He said he had visited the nursing home many times over the years and had only ever heard good reports from residents and their relatives. Residential care executive director Julie Munro said nothing had changed at the nursing home since it lost its accreditation in February. The nursing home had simply continued its high standards. "From some adverse press earlier in the year the Mosman Park Nursing Home has come through with flying colours," she said. Fred Winfield, whose sister Ethel lives at the nursing home, said the re-accreditation was good news, but he always thought the nursing home was excellent. Miss Winfield (83) said she was happy with the nursing home partly because the staff were nice to her and the food was good and partly because she liked living in Mosman Park. Miss Winfield is one of five children born in a house that still stands in Eastbourne Street. She said she had happy memories of the river and of playing cricket and football at the beach with her siblings. "I was an all-rounder," she said. |
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