Wesley Mission will close its remaining three Sydney aged care homes, citing problems with staffing, costs and national changes being rolled out for the sector.
The decision will affect nearly 200 people living in its facilities at Sylvania in the south, Carlingford in the northwest, as well as its Narrabeen home on the northern beaches.
The decision comes after the closure of its Wesley Tebbutt facility at Dundas in northwest Sydney last year.
CEO and superintendent Reverend Stu Cameron said several factors were behind “the difficult decision,” including “challenges to workforce and flow-on impacts from the national reforms to aged care.”
The aged care royal commission made 148 wide-ranging recommendations, and the federal government has committed to having registered nurses in aged care homes around the clock from July….