Southern Cross Care is closing its facility at Moama in the southern Riverina, leaving residents devastated.
A small southern New South Wales border town is about to lose one of its aged care facilities, with locals calling for residents to not be transferred to other communities.It says the closure is due to issues attracting permanent staffSouthern Cross Care NSW & ACT has confirmed it will close its 56-bed Moama facility in the southern Riverina, due to workforce shortages.
Chief Executive Officer Monique Reynolds said the facility had operated at a reduced capacity for the past 12 months. "It's really important that their wellbeing is the utmost priority and making sure they're comfortable with the accommodation options available," she said.Charles Sturt University associate professor in nursing Maree Bernoth said the closure was "very sad" for the Moama community."We know that older people who are moved away from where they prefer to be certainly have a reduced quality of life and some of them die prematurely.
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