Exclusive: Australia’s aged care regulator failed Kalyna Care in an audit just weeks before coronavirus emerged
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An elderly care home resident who was transferred to hospital from a facility that was beleaguered with Covid-19 died with 18 sores on her body and was suffering from “pure neglect”, a nurse who treated her has told the Guardian.
The woman in her 90s was transferred to St Vincent’s private hospital in East Melbourne from the Kalyna Care aged care facility after she was found in her room with infected wounds on her leg.