10 Oct 2022

Aged care staff shortage may for Auckland rest home to close

From Checkpoint, 5:27 pm on 10 October 2022

An Auckland resthome says it may be forced to close its doors if it can't find 24 more health care workers. The not-for-profit Mercy Parklands resthome in Ellerslie says they're so short-staffed they've been forced to reduce beds at a cost of more than $100,000 a month. Our reporter Finn Blackwell has more.