The confidential medical information of more than 400 patients has been found in an abandoned aged care facility that was operated by the New South Wales government, theABC has reported. The facility was once the Garrawarra Centre for Aged Care in Helensburgh, 45km south of Sydney, which according to the ABC is operating a 120-bed dementia-specific facility nearby. It is believed the documents, containing pain and incontinence charts, social worker reports, doctors’ referrals, hospital admission forms, a photo album, and an internal memo regarding a complaint from a daughter who was not notified when her father died, were left on the floor of the derelict building.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet
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