The Ministry of Health (MOH) conducts regular and periodic audits, as well as special reviews and inspections on nursing homes. The great majority of nursing homes placed on closer monitoring took adequate corrective actions and sustained their improvements.
The Ministry of Health conducts regular and periodic audits, as well as special reviews and inspections on nursing homes. The great majority of nursing homes placed on closer monitoring took adequate corrective actions and sustained their improvements.
If the gaps are serious, repeated and there is a lack of serious effort to rectify them, such as in the case of Windsor Convalescent Home and LC Nursing Home, MOH will have to escalate its measures. These two cases of licence revocation are an outcome of the regulatory framework working as intended. Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How highlighted the safeguards in reply to an MP’s question in parliament on Tuesday .
He also said MOH and the Agency for Integrated Care will be sharing the findings of their recent audits and manpower training and grant support available in the nursing home sector. The Ministry of Health conducts regular and periodic audits, as well as special reviews and inspections on nursing homes. The great majority of nursing homes placed on closer monitoring took adequate corrective actions and sustained their improvements.
If the gaps are serious, repeated and there is a lack of serious effort to rectify them, such as in the case of Windsor Convalescent Home and LC Nursing Home, MOH will have to escalate its measures. These two cases of licence revocation are an outcome of the regulatory framework working as intended. Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How highlighted the safeguards in reply to an MP’s question in parliament on Tuesday .
He also said MOH and the Agency for Integrated Care will be sharing the findings of their recent audits and manpower training and grant support available in the nursing home sector.
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