A residential care home change: what to notify
Residential care home change: the notification lines the clauses we hold attach to it, the requirements it touches with why each applies, and the evidence to keep. Each line names its clause and the edition we hold; the decision to notify stays with you.
- notification lines
- 1 possible, depending on the answers
- requirements
- 7 mapped across 2 frameworks
- questions it asks
- 2
What the clauses say: the notification lines
| To | By when | Clause | Applies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | within 14 days of becoming aware | Aged Care Act s 167 and Rules 167-5 to 167-70 | Aged care |
The questions it asks
2 questions- What changed at the home? (ownership, closing, another change to the home)
- Are residents moving out?
Each has not sure: a line resting on it stays, as a question.
What your change log usually carries for it
A date, a label of your own (a site, a role, a service, never a person's name), the date you became aware, and often a status or an owner. Paste it as it is: the type column reads words such as “residential care home”, “aged care home”, “residential home”, “home ownership”, “home sale” and “home transfer”. The answers go in one cell as key=value pairs.
The requirements it touches, and the evidence to keep
7 rowsAged Care Quality Standards
- ACQS Rules s 15-40(2): Rules s 15-40(2) asks how individuals feel in their residential care home; residents and supporters are told about the change.
evidence to keepRecord of how residents and supporters were told about the change. - ACQS Rules s 15-15(17): Emergency and disaster planning covers the home after the change.
evidence to keepEmergency and disaster plan for the home, reviewed after the change.
Aged Care Act 2024
- Aged Care Act s 167 and Rules 167-5 to 167-70: Section 167 lists changes to residential care homes, such as ownership, among the prescribed changes, notified within 14 days of becoming aware.
evidence to keepChange-of-circumstances entry for the home: date aware, date lodged. - Aged Care Act s 175: Each residential care home needs a registered nurse on site and on duty at all times, unless an exemption or the TCP carve-out applies.
evidence to keepRN roster for the home through the change. - Aged Care Act s 176 and Rules 176-5 to 176-35: A residential care provider meets each home's care minutes averages every quarter, per resident per day.
evidence to keepCare minutes report for the home for the quarter of the change. - Aged Care Act s 149(f): A resident may be asked to leave only on a prescribed ground; the home closing is one. (when: Are residents moving out)
evidence to keepRecord of the ground relied on for each resident moving out. - Aged Care Act s 149(g): Before asking a resident to leave, a continuity of care plan is prepared, and records follow the resident within 28 days of a request. (when: Are residents moving out)
evidence to keepContinuity of care plan per resident and the records transfer log.
Check one changeSee the specimen registerThe one-page sample register