Blue Care loses Executive Director Stephen Muggleton

Nov 11 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Blue Care, the iconic residential and community care division of UnitingCare Queensland, has announced the resignation of Executive Director, Stephen Muggleton.

11 aged care providers ‘named and shamed’ by the regulator for failing care minute targets

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has named 27 residential aged care homes and eleven providers who have been hit with ‘enforceable undertakings’ for failing to meet their care minute targets. Nine of the 27 homes listed are operated by Tricare.

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

Opinion

Today, with 78-year-old President Trump in America and 30-something Adrian Puljich and Patrick Abolakian in Australia, each stand out – but we are in better hands

What a day. The US and the world looks to Trump to make America (and the world?) great with his inauguration and his deportation of immigrants. Here in Australia’s seniors living sector, we have two sons of immigrants leading the way to support...

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Chris Baynes

21 Jan 2025

Aged Care

New initiative seeks to train Indonesian nurses to work as aged care workers in Australia

With an estimated 250,000 Indonesian nursing graduates currently unemployed, a new program is seeking to help Australian aged care providers meet their personal care worker shortages by tapping into the country’s oversupply of trained nurses.

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Lauren Broomham

15 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Department’s $580,000 aged care Star Ratings evaluation reveals what operators already know

Management consultants Allen + Clarke found Australia’s Star Ratings system has incentivised improvements to the quality of aged care services but “perceived inaccuracies” in the staffing and compliance ratings and ”negative media coverage” had eroded trust in the system.

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

John Wood’s Providence Lifestyle Resorts wants to extend fourth land lease estate near Perth, WA

John founded Providence Lifestyle Group in 2020, with fellow directors John Green, James Turnbull, and Brad Denison. He founded National Lifestyle Villages, which was sold to GIC and Tasman Capital Partners in 2018, when he became Director of...

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Only in SATURDAY: reason for hope for village operators in Aged Care Act draft

Hybrid, privately funded care models in retirement villages should fall outside the remit of new Aged Care Act legislation, MinterEllison Partner Penelope Eden has told the latest issue of SATURDAY. The Exposure Draft of the new Act has had many...

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Lauren Broomham

05 Feb 2024

Uncategorized

North Bundaberg’s 487 home RV land lease village incentivised for fast start

The RV Lifestyle Village Oceanside project was officially opened this past weekend after a ribbon cutting ceremony. The resort-style village, located just outside Bundaberg in Burnett Heads, will have 487 sites upon its completion. Bundaberg Region...

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The Weekly Source

15 Feb 2021