The O'Conor Memorial Home

Profile & contact details

Premises details
Premises nameThe O'Conor Memorial Home
Address 190 Queen Street Westport 7825
Websitewww.eldernet.co.nz/Facilities/Hospital_Care/O_Conor_Home/Service/DisplayService/FaStID/11903
Total beds68
Service typesDementia care, Rest home care, Geriatric, Medical
Certification/licence details
Certification/licence nameThe O'Conor Institute Trust Board - The O'Conor Memorial Home
Current auditorThe DAA Group Limited
End date of current certificate/licence15 October 2024
Certification period36 months
Provider details
Provider nameThe O'Conor Institute Trust Board
Street address 190 Queen Street Westport 7825
Post address190 Queen St Westport 7825

Progress on issues from the last audit

What’s on this page?

This rest home has been audited against the Health and Disability Services Standards. During the last audit, the auditors identified some areas for improvement.

Issues from their last audit are listed in the corrective actions table below, along with the action required to fix the issue, its risk level, and whether or not the issue has been reported as fixed.

A guide to the table is available below.

Details of corrective actions

Date of last audit: 07 June 2023

Outcome requiredFound at auditAction requiredRisk ratingAction statusDate action reported complete
Service providers shall ensure there are sufficient health care and support workers on duty at all times to provide culturally and clinically safe services.Overall, staffing levels remain challenging, particularly due to the ongoing difficulties recruiting RNs into the region. Further efforts are needed to successfully recruit and retain staff to ensure safe and sustainable staffing levels are maintained, releasing management and activities staff to return to their areas of work. Staffing levels and skill mix remain a risk for the service. Continue to successfully implement recruitment efforts for RNs and care staff to ensure sustainable safe staffing levels and skill mix. PA LowIn Progress
In implementing care or support plans, service providers shall demonstrate: (a) Active involvement with the person receiving services and whānau; (b) That the provision of service is consistent with, and contributes to, meeting the person’s assessed needs, goals, and aspirations. Whānau require assessment for support needs as well. This supports whānau ora and pae ora, and builds resilience, self-management, and self-advocacy among the collective; (c) That the person receives services that remov… (this text has been trimmed due to space limits).The documentation describing the care the resident required was not consistent with meeting the resident’s assessed needs. Provide evidence the care plans describe the care the resident requires to meet their assessed needs. PA ModerateIn Progress
A medication management system shall be implemented appropriate to the scope of the service.There was no evidence sighted to evidence medications are stored within the required temperature ranges. Provide evidence medications are stored at the required temperature ranges. PA ModerateReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall understand Māori constructs of oranga and implement a process to support Māori and whānau to identify their own pae ora outcomes in their care or support plan. The support required to achieve these shall be clearly documented, communicated, and understood.Service providers did not understand Māori constructs of oranga and residents had not identified their own pae ora outcomes. Provide evidence that staff have been given education on the Māori constructs of oranga so that they can support residents to identify their own pae ora outcomes. PA ModerateReporting Complete22/01/2024
Information held about health care and support workers shall be accurate, relevant, secure, and confidential. Ethnicity data shall be collected, recorded, and used in accordance with Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) requirements.Ethnicity data for staff is not being collected, recorded, or used in accordance with Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) requirements at O’Conor. Provide evidence that ethnicity data for staff is being collected, recorded, and used in accordance with Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) requirements at O’Conor. PA LowReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall ensure there is a system to identify, plan, facilitate, and record ongoing learning and development for health care and support workers so that they can provide high-quality safe services.Education/training has not been delivered in the service to ensure staff can continue to provide high-quality and safe services for residents at O’Conor. Provide evidence that the education programme to facilitate learning and development of staff has been delivered at O’Conor, or that alternative interventions have been put into place to take the place of the learning and development programme so that staff have the knowledge to provide high-quality safe services. PA ModerateReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall ensure their health care and support workers can deliver highquality health care for Māori.The service was not able to demonstrate that their health care and support workers can deliver high-quality health care for Māori. Education on the Whare Tapa Whā model of care, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te reo Māori, and tikanga guidelines to support Māori oranga had not been delivered. Provide evidence that health care and support workers can deliver high-quality health care for Māori through appropriate education on the Whare Tapa Whā model of care, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te reo Māori, and tikanga guidelines to support Māori oranga. PA ModerateReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall develop and implement a quality management framework using a risk-based approach to improve service delivery and care.Not all quality activities required by the quality management framework of the organisation have been completed. Provide evidence that all quality activities are being completed as per the requirements of the quality management framework of the organisation. PA ModerateReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall follow the appropriate best practice tikanga guidelines in relation to consent.Staff have not received training on the appropriate best practice guidelines in relation to consent. Provide evidence staff at O’Conor are trained on best practice guidelines relating to consent. PA LowReporting Complete22/01/2024
Service providers shall respond to tāngata whaikaha needs and enable their participation in te ao Māori.Service providers had no specific formal engagement with tāngata whaikaha to assist with enabling their participation in te ao Māori. Provide evidence staff can respond to tāngata whaikaha needs and enable their participation in te ao Māori. PA LowReporting Complete22/01/2024

Guide to table

Outcome required

The outcome required by the Health and Disability Services Standards.

Found at audit

The issue that was found when the rest home was audited.

Action required

The action necessary to fix the issue, as decided by the auditor.

Risk level

Whether the required outcome was partially attained (PA) or unattained (UA), and what the risk level of the issue is.

The outcome is partially attained when:

  • there is evidence that the rest home has the appropriate process in place, but not the required documentation
  • when the rest home has the required documentation, but is unable to show that the process is being implemented.

The outcome is unattained when the rest home cannot show that they have the needed processes, systems or structures in place.

The risk level is determined by two things: how likely the issue is to happen and how serious the consequences of it happening would be.

The risk levels are:

  • negligible – this issue requires no additional action or planning.
  • low – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within a specified and agreed time frame, such as one year.
  • moderate – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within a specific and agreed time frame, such as six months.
  • high – this issue requires a negotiated plan in order to fix the issue within one month or as agreed between the service and auditor.
  • critical – This issue requires immediate corrective action in order to fix the identified issue including documentation and sign off by the auditor within 24 hours to ensure consumer safety.

The risk level may be downgraded once the rest home reports the issue is fixed.

Action status

Whether the necessary action is still in progress or if it is complete, as reported by the rest home to the relevant district health board.

Date action reported complete

The date that the district health board was told the issue was fixed.

Audit reports

Before you begin
Before you download the audit reports, please read our guide to rest home certification and audits which gives an overview of the auditing process and explains what the audit reports mean.

What’s on this page?

Audit reports for this rest home’s latest audits can be downloaded below.

Full audit reports are provided for audits processed and approved after 29 August 2013.  Note that the format for the full audit reports was streamlined from 16 December 2014.  Full audit reports between 29 August 2013 and 16 December 2014 are therefore in a different format. 

From 1 June 2009 to 28 February 2022 rest homes were audited against the Health and Disability Services Standards NZS 8134:2008. These standards have been updated, and from 28 February 2022 rest homes are audited against Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard NZS 8134:2021.

Prior to 29 August 2013, only audit summaries are available.

Both the recent full audit reports and previous audit summaries include:

  • an overview of the rest home’s performance, and
  • coloured indicators showing how well the rest home performed against the different aspects of the Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard.

Note: From November 2013, as rest homes are audited, any issues from their latest audit (the corrective actions required by the auditor) will appear on the rest home’s page. As the rest home completes the required actions, the status on the web site will update.

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