John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister for Ageing. Can the minister confirm that the Immanuel Gardens Nursing Home has failed to meet care standards for last three years? Can the minister also confirm that inspections of this facility on 26 July 2005, 11 and 12 August 2005, and 6 and 7 December 2005 all found serious breaches of care standards, yet no sanctions were imposed? Didn’t the December 2005 inspection find that residents were at risk because of unsafe medication management, inappropriate behaviour and poor pain management? Is the minister also aware of comments by a carer at the facility that she only attends to resident incontinence when she can smell them? Given this evidence, why did residents have to wait until February this year before a nursing adviser was appointed? Is the minister satisfied with decisions to continually give this provider more time while residents endured substandard conditions?