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Terry Anderson's avatar

Correctoon: In my original statement I may have underestimated the number if residents in the nursing home. When the facility was opened in2020, approximately 73 residents transferred from feeder homes that were owned by the parent company. The facility, however had a capacity of 114 rooms, which I've only just learnt. I'm attempting to establish the occupancy rate. The Rates described in my original post are therefore likely too high, although still alarming.?.............::::

I have first-hand experience in my mother's nursing home in Melbourne, Australia. They have an average resident occupation of around 75 in a facility with 80 rooms. Between September 2021 and August 2022, they lost at least 24 residents, my mother was number 23 (no deaths are listed for October, but there is reason to believe there were deaths). So they lost 1/3 of their residents in 12 months. Normally they would lose 4-5 per year .I'm sure that, like my mother, they would have been at least boosted once. They used to publish a newsletter that listed departures,, deaths, but that stopped in October 2021, when they reported 2 residents dying in September. I wonder why they stopped publishing? The only reason I k ow all these people died, was that in September 2022 they held memorial service for all that had died in the previous year. They presented a photo of each with date of death. In the week that my mother died August 2022, 4 others died. Thus total number of deaths is off the charts. No wonder my mother's room was still vacant 2 weeks after her death.

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Conway Judge's avatar

Irony.

When the heart foundation is heartless

And the courts are all unjust

The leaders of the free world enslave us

And the hospitals crumble to dust.

"We did this for your benefit" seems like irony.

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