Three aged care homes in Sydney are set to close as a provider fails to find and keep staff.
Wesley Mission is closing its three remaining aged care homes in Sylvania, Carlingford and Narrabeen by the end of next month.
Nearly 200 residents will be impacted.
CEO Reverand Stu Cameron said the difficulty of finding workers and the government implementing staff ratio requirements has forced the closures.
The federal government is reforming aged care by hiring registered nurses to work in homes 24 hours a day, seven days a week by July 1.
Providers have reported finding difficulty in recruiting staff to meet the requirement.
“The Aged Care sector is experiencing challenges to workforce and flow-on impacts from the national reforms to Aged Care. Wesley Mission supports these once-in-a-generation reforms, improving quality for all care users,” Cameron said.
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“It is, however, a challenging environment to be a smaller provider.
“With just three aged care locations, our offering in this area is small compared to the large and diverse range of community services we provide around NSW and across Australia.”
Aged care coordinator and placement provider MyCarePath will help residents in the three Sydney homes find alternative places to live.
“At this stage, we anticipate closing our centres at the end of May 2023, and before then, we will be doing all we can to support residents in choosing a new home that meets their needs,” Cameron said.
Cameron said the company will also help staff at the three homes find a new role or a job at a different provider.
Wesley Mission closed the Tebbutt home in Sydney’s north-west last year as it couldn’t provide the necessary building updates.
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