Residential Aged Care - Sanctions and Notices of Non-Compliance
Current Sanctions: Northern Territory
Information relating to sanctions imposed by the Department of Health and Ageing on the approved providers (operators) of Commonwealth funded residential aged care facilities.
Summary of Facilities Under Sanctions Action
This site is amended weekly. This site was last reviewed on Thursday 2 July 2009.- Facility
- Katherine Red Cross Centre
- Facility Address
- Riverbank Drive
KATHERINE NT 0850
- Approved Provider
- Australian Red Cross (NT Division)
- Sanctions Applied
- Sanction 1
Approval as an approved provider of aged care services revoked unless an adviser is appointed for a period of 6 months.
Sanction 2
No Australian Government funding for new care recipients for a period of 6 months.
Sanction 3
Provide training in clinical care; management of medication; emergency evacuation procedures; and management of staff including methods to ensure that there are adequate numbers of appropriately skilled and qualified staff on duty at all times to meet resident's care needs.
- Date Sanction Imposed
- Sanction 1, 2 and 3
17 April 2009
- Date Sanction Expires
- Sanction 1,2 and 3
- 16 October 2009
- Reason for Sanction
- The Agency identified serious risk, in relation to Standard 1, 1.6: Human Resource Management and Standard 4, 4.4: Living Environment.
- Current Status of Service
- The Department and the Aged Care Standards and the Accreditation Agency are continuing to monitor the service.
The Agency advised that Serious Risk was mitigated on 30 April 2009.
The Service has appointed an Adviser.
Sanction in place.
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