Star ratings for aged care homes: what the four ratings measure
Every residential aged care home gets four sub-category Star Ratings plus an overall one. Here is what each of the four measures, what data it is drawn from, and how often it changes.
Care minutes
The care minutes an aged care home must deliver each day, and how providers read the gap.
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Care minutes and staffing: how to read the numbers
A gap between planned and delivered care minutes is the difference between the time your roster promised each resident and the time your staff recorded. Here is how to read that gap, and what to check first.
AN-ACC funding classes and what sets a resident's care minutes
AN-ACC places every permanent resident in one of 13 classes, and that class carries both the daily funding weight and the daily care-minutes figure. Here is how the model works and how to check your own numbers against it.
Which numbers an aged care home should check every week
Care minutes, occupancy, incidents and staffing are the four numbers worth checking every week in an aged care home. This is what each one tells you, and what a change in it usually means.
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