Aged care facility owner Japara Healthcare Limited has dismissed the Aged Care Royal Commission’s findings suggesting there is a systemic problem with staff assaulting residents in their 49 nursing homes.
The commission's senior counsel Peter Rozen claims almost 300 reports of suspected assaults on residents were made at Japara facilities between September 2015 and May 2019.
Japara Healthcare Limited CEO Andrew Sudholz says fewer than 100 of those were substantiated, also adding the company is soon to trial CCTV cameras in one facility.