Kellock Lodge 3311

Assessment contact Performance Report

An assessment contact was conducted with this service on 17 May 2023.

The attached Performance Report details the assessment of performance against the Aged Care Quality Standards following the assessment contact.

Accreditation decision

Following a site audit conducted on 17 May 2022 to 20 May 2022, the Commission made a decision on 18 July 2022 to re-accredit this service.

The period of accreditation of the service will expire on 18 July 2025.

Site audit Performance Report

A site audit was conducted with this service on 17 May 2022 to 20 May 2022.

The attached Performance Report details the assessment of performance against the Aged Care Quality Standards following the site audit.

Exceptional Circumstances

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has temporarily modified our Regulatory Program, including the suspension of site audits to determine whether to accredit, not to re-accredit or vary the periods of accreditation for a service. 

In order to give effect to continuity of accreditation the Department of Health has, under Section 42.5 of the Aged Care Act 1997, made a decision to grant ‘exceptional circumstances’ to this service until 06 September 2022.

The service remains subject to compliance monitoring by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

Exceptional Circumstances

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has temporarily modified our Regulatory Program, including the suspension of site audits to determine whether to accredit, not to re-accredit or vary the periods of accreditation for a service. 

In order to give effect to continuity of accreditation the Department of Health has, under Section 42.5 of the Aged Care Act 1997, made a decision to grant ‘exceptional circumstances’ to this service until 06 March 2022.

The service remains subject to compliance monitoring by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

Following an audit we decided that this service met 44 of the 44 expected outcomes of the Accreditation Standards and would be accredited for two years until 06 September 2021.

Following an audit we decided that this home met 44 of the 44 expected outcomes of the Accreditation Standards and would be accredited for one year until 06 September 2019.

Serious risk decision

On 9 March 2018 a delegate of the CEO of the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency made a decision that the Trustees of the Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta failed to meet two expected outcomes in the Accreditation Standards in relation to Kellock Lodge and that this failure has placed the safety, health or wellbeing of a care recipient of the service at serious risk.

An assessment contact was conducted by the Quality Agency on 16 May 2018 at Kellock Lodge to monitor the service’s progress. The Quality Agency found the service complies with all Accreditation Standards.

Serious risk is not an ongoing state; it is a statutory decision based on evidence at a point in time.

Following an audit we decided that this home met 37 of the 44 expected outcomes and we decided to vary this home’s accreditation period. This home is now accredited until 06

Following an audit we decided that this home met 44 of the 44 expected outcomes of the Accreditation Standards and would be accredited for three years until 08 June 2018.

Following an audit we decided that this home met 44 of the 44 expected outcomes of the Accreditation Standards and would be accredited for three years until 08 June 2018.

This decision has been reconsidered and as a result the period of accreditation for this home will now expire on 08 January 2019.  The reconsideration decision and audit report is attached.