Aged care crisis: Covid death tolls revealed, every care home tracked
This is where every Covid death has occurred in aged care homes across Australia. See the full list of homes with the worst death tolls.
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The Covid-19 death toll of every aged care home that has suffered the loss of a resident can now be revealed.
There have been 371 aged care homes with at least one Covid death. since the start of the pandemic.
In its latest report the Federal Government said there had been 1500 Covid deaths in total since the start of the pandemic.
The data is based on government figures available on the health.gov.au website, up until Feb 4, 2022. Some deaths before this date may not yet be included in these figures.
The data available reveals Victorian homes overwhelmingly dominate the top 30 facilities with the highest number of deaths, taking out 27 spots.
Four of the top five homes with the highest Covid deaths are from Victoria and are St Basil’s Home for the Aged with 45 deaths; Epping Gardens, 38 and Baptist Care Wyndham Lodge, 30; Kalyna Care, 26. The Russian Relief Association of St Sergius of Radonezh in NSW, has 23 deaths.
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Jeta Gardens Aged Care Facility in Queensland has had 10 deaths, the highest in that state.
The highest death toll in South Australia so far has been at Linsell Lodge Aged Care Facility which has seen seven deaths.
Aged Care Matters Director Dr Sarah Russell who has been tracking deaths in each aged care facility for the last six months, said she started doing it because she was worried no-one else was.
“It takes a lot of work, but I felt it was important that somebody was keeping count,” she said.
“The questions I’ve been asking over the past two years was why were there so many deaths in some homes and not others?
“Other homes have had outbreaks but no deaths. What is about these homes? Were the residents all vaccinated or had their boosters? I wish the Government would reveal that.
“I don’t believe they’re all palliative.
“I’m hearing on the ground from families that their relatives weren’t dying before they got Covid.”
Originally published as Aged care crisis: Covid death tolls revealed, every care home tracked
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