Former director of Nightingale Nursing Home convicted

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Former director of Nightingale Nursing Home convicted
By Claire Huang | Posted: 03 September 2012 1131 hrs

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Grab of video taken in Nightingale Nursing Home shows two staff members lifting an elderly patient.

SINGAPORE: The director of the nursing home that was accused of mistreating an elderly female resident in 2011 has been convicted.

Former director of Nightingale Nursing Home Tan Choo Woah on Monday admitted to the failure to provide optimal quality care to the patient.

The highest penalty for this is a fine of up to S$20,000 or jail of up to two years, or both.

Tan also admitted to various charges of illegal deployment and false declaration to the Ministry of Manpower, among other things.

Tan also represented Greenview Nursing Home as well as Civic Ambulance Services and was convicted of similar manpower-related charges.

The Nightingale Nursing Home scandal was sparked by a video secretly filmed by the son of the elderly patient who was abused.

The patient was seen being flung onto a bed and slapped by staff of the nursing home.

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[Mukai]

Former director of Nightingale Nursing Home convicted

Monday, Sep 03, 2012
YourHealth, AsiaOne

SINGAPORE: The former director of Nightingale Nursing Home pleaded guilty today to various charges, including the failure to provide quality care for the elderly patient that was mistreated.

In 2010, an elderly female resident was mistreated by nursing aides. Madam Peh Siew Lay was flung onto her bed by Nightingale staff, and was slapped on her mouth when she groaned. This was filmed by a secret camera installed by her son.

Nightingale's director Tan Choo Waoh was in court and also represented her company, Greenview Nursing Home and Civic Ambulance Services, reported The Straits Times.

In April, the home was slapped with 31 manpower-related charges. Nightingale and Greenview Nursing Home had illegally deployed foreign nursing staff as manpower for football games.

Civic Ambulance Services had falsely declared higher wages in employment contracts than what it was actually paying staff.

Tan also admitted to charges that she failed to pay workers for overtime work in 2010.

Sentencing for the four parties was adjourned to Sept 18.

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[Mukai]

Nightingale Nursing Home has been ordered to stop accepting new patients after a video of staff members abusing residents were discovered.

The video was recorded by a resident's relative using a secret camera.

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[Mukai]

An old woman was seen sitting bare-bodied under a whirring fan.

She was said to have been in that state for 30 minutes.

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Two staff members pick her up by her arms and feet.

They then fling her onto the bed.
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The woman patient lets out a groan after landing on the bed.

One of the staff members then hit her on the mouth.


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A spokeperson for Nightingale Group said this was an isolated incident and that those responsible would be punished.

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He said additional measures have been put in place to get management and senior staff to check on workers regularly.

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[Mukai]

Netizens who watched the video on YouTube were outraged at the treatment of the woman. They criticised the home.

MOH said in a statement that it will closely monitor the nursing home to ensure the supervisory measures are implemented

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[iluvu]

Received an email from a subscriber, that reads like this:

"When it happened, I was shocked and so I phoned Nightingale to demand the centre to post the photos and names of the 2 staff on its notice board and requested to speak to the bayi, but the receptionist played tai-chi with me and just said "Thank you for your feedback" and another phone-call made by my agency staff, the receptionist, which I was told speaks like a pinoy male, gave the mobile of the bayi-in-charge and the bayi is the manager. Did a check and found that there're two bayis, and the senior bayi is the overall in charge."

Not sure how this fat shit woman becomes the one to be charged. Should be the senior bayi, but again, the mastermind gets away scot-free.

 

[chowka]

Received an email from a subscriber, that reads like this:

"When it happened, I was shocked and so I phoned Nightingale to demand the centre to post the photos and names of the 2 staff on its notice board and requested to speak to the bayi, but the receptionist played tai-chi with me and just said "Thank you for your feedback" and another phone-call made by my agency staff, the receptionist, which I was told speaks like a pinoy male, gave the mobile of the bayi-in-charge and the bayi is the manager. Did a check and found that there're two bayis, and the senior bayi is the overall in charge."

Not sure how this fat shit woman becomes the one to be charged. Should be the senior bayi, but again, the mastermind gets away scot-free.

Thank u for your contribution. Rare but nice to see u here.

 

[lianbeng]

Former director of Nightingale Nursing Home convicted

lianbeng says look at that teeboo, pig mother, standby some adult pampers full of shit to plaster on her face as she steps out of court.

 

[sense]

What goes around, comes around.

 

[DroppingHeehaw]

I am glad that they are taking actions into this. So what happened to the victims? Are they still staying at there or have since been transferred to another nursing home?

 

[Ultŕaman]

Nightingale Nursing Home fined $15k for abusing elderly patient

Tuesday, Sep 18, 2012
YourHealth, AsiaOne

SINGAPORE - In the first case of its kind, the nursing home accused of mistreating an elderly patient has been fined $15,000 for failing to ensure an approved level of care in its nursing practices.

The case first came to light when Madam Peh Siew Lay's son installed a camera-clock beside her bed, which subsequently recorded her being tossed onto the bed by two of Nightingale Nursing Home's staff and another slapping her on the mouth.

The nursing home was fined another $11,000 for illegally deploying their foreign worker nursing aides as food and drink sellers, cheerleaders and security personnel at Toa Payoh Stadium during football games.

Its sister organisation, Greenview Nursing Home under the Nightingale Group, was also fined $6,500 on similar charges of illegal deployment.

In addition, Civic Ambulance Services, also under the Nightingale Group, was fined $20,000 for falsely declaring the salaries of its foreign staff.

Nightingale's director Tan Choo Waoh, 64, was fined $12,000 for requiring workers to work more than the statutory eight hours per day when signing their employment contracts and for not paying them for overtime work in June 2010.

District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim said the heavy sentence was to send a message to nursing home operators that the law has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to the inappropriate treatment of elderly patients.

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