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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) will revoke the licence of LC Nursing Home in Siglap following findings of \u201cserious and systemic\u201d lapses in care and safety, in the second such case involving a nursing home this month.<\/p>\n
The revocation will take effect from Nov 23, 2026, giving time for the home\u2019s 78 residents to be transferred to other facilities.<\/p>\n
To safeguard residents in the interim, the ministry said on Monday (Jun 29) that it has deployed a care team to LC Nursing Home to ensure proper care during the transition period.<\/p>\n
LC Nursing Home currently holds a licence to operate a 93-bed facility at Jalan Ulu Siglap.<\/p>\n
The decision follows a series of audits that uncovered persistent non-compliance with requirements under the Healthcare Services Act.<\/p>\n
Audits conducted in November and December 2025 had already identified serious lapses. “LC Nursing Home was then given the opportunity to remediate these non-compliances, with MOH enforcing stricter and closer monitoring before assessing if further regulatory action was necessary,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n
However, a further audit in April 2026 found that the nursing home had failed to fully implement corrective measures or sustain earlier improvements. Investigators also uncovered new and repeated breaches.<\/p>\n
Lapses found include:<\/p>\n
Inadequate clinical and nursing care<\/strong><\/p>\n Failure to provide adequate basic care to residents<\/strong><\/p>\n Inadequate infection prevention and control practices<\/strong><\/p>\n Failure to ensure a safe environment<\/strong><\/p>\n The ministry said it had issued a notice of intended revocation on Jun 2 and gave the operator 14 days to respond.<\/p>\n In its reply, LC Nursing Home acknowledged the findings and did not dispute the non-compliances.<\/p>\n “While LC Nursing Home assured MOH that they would take remedial actions to address the findings, the plan provided by LC Nursing Home was very brief, without clear milestones set, and did not provide sufficient assurance,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n After reviewing the response and audit findings, MOH concluded that the operator was unable to continue providing nursing home services safely.<\/p>\n MOH said it is working to ensure that affected residents are transferred to suitable alternative homes ahead of the November deadline.<\/p>\n On its website, LC Nursing Home said it operates under \u201cone of the lowest pricing models for private nursing homes\u201d in Singapore, adding that it accepts government-subsidised residents into its care.<\/p>\n The home\u2019s residential services include palliative and \u201cend-of-life\u201d care, with 24\/7 nursing services.<\/p>\n Its founder and CEO, Dr Chia Yang Pong, also runs a hospital in Batam and a nursing home in Johor Bahru, according to the website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) will revoke the licence of LC Nursing Home in Siglap following findings of \u201cserious and systemic\u201d lapses in care…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--PqtUUY94--\/c_crop,h_809,w_1439,x_1,y_205\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/06\/29\/lc.jpg?itok=sOvqRbtK","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[120,8973,469,1616,6009,4777,3936,14029,398,25379],"class_list":["post-64758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-care","tag-finding","tag-home","tag-lapses","tag-licence","tag-moh","tag-nursing","tag-revoke","tag-safety","tag-siglap","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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