SINGAPORE – LC Nursing Home in Siglap is the second nursing home to be slapped with a closing down order by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in June, on the heels of Windsor Convalescent Home in Pasir Panjang.
MOH said it will revoke the licence of LC Nursing Home on Nov 23, after finding serious and systemic lapses in care and safety.
Windsor Convalescent Home will have its licence to provide nursing home services revoked on Oct 30, after a series of serious lapses in areas like resident safety and infection control practices.
Chia Yang Pong is listed as LC Nursing Home’s founder and chief executive on its website.
Chia was struck off the medical register in 2004 in a high-profile case, when eight doctors from his Grace Polyclinic chain were punished for indiscriminately prescribing addictive sleeping pills.
That year, Chia was brought to a disciplinary committee by the Singapore Medical Council. He faced 80 charges of professional misconduct which he pleaded guilty to.
He was subsequently fined $65,000 by the committee, and struck off the medical register, a decision he appealed against. He saw his fine reduced to $10,000.
Chia was then the sole licensee of Grace Polyclinic, a chain of seven medical clinics.
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