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SINGAPORE \u2013 \u00a0LC 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<\/span><\/a>, on the heels of Windsor Convalescent Home in Pasir Panjang.<\/p>\n MOH said it will revoke the licence of LC Nursing Home on Nov 23, after finding serious and systemic lapses in care and safety.<\/p>\n Windsor Convalescent Home will have its licence to provide nursing home services revoked<\/span><\/a> on Oct 30, after a series of serious lapses in areas like resident safety and infection control practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chia Yang Pong is listed as LC Nursing Home\u2019s founder and chief executive on its website.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Chia was then the sole licensee of Grace Polyclinic, a chain of seven medical clinics.<\/p>\n The authorities inspected all branches in November 2002, and found that benzodiazepines had been improperly prescribed to 80 patients, without a proper record of their symptoms and condition.<\/p>\n The council said that what Chia did \u201cwas essentially a systematic prescription of hypnotic drugs to the patients\u201d.<\/p>\n It accused him of \u201cfreely dispensing the hypnotic drugs… without any regard to their medical conditions, health, interest or the harm that might come to them\u201d.<\/p>\n It also took him to task for his \u201clack of control\u201d regarding the way the locums at his seven clinics treated patients.<\/p>\n Checks on corporate intelligence platform Sayari show LC Nursing Home is closely tied to another company, Margaret Chio Nursing Home.<\/p>\n Both companies share the same address at Jalan Ulu Siglap, and are linked through five current and past directors.<\/p>\n LC Nursing Home was incorporated in 1994. Its current directors are Ng Lee Chow and Lydia Low Chia Sue-Ann. Ng holds 87.5 per cent of the shares, while Low holds the remaining 12.5 per cent.<\/p>\n Both women are minority shareholders of Margaret Chio Nursing Home, where Ng is also a director.<\/p>\n The other director and majority shareholder of Margaret Chio Nursing Home is Chia.<\/p>\n Chia, who married Ng in 1977, is a former director of LC Nursing Home. The couple are also former directors of Xentific Home Nurse Care, whose sole director is now Low.<\/p>\n Further checks by The Straits Times found that Low is a property agent with Huttons, and had listed the property at 2 Jalan Ulu Siglap for sale in May, with an asking price of $30 million.<\/p>\n Property consultancy CBRE said in a June 16 media statement that a freehold site at 2 and 4 Jalan Ulu Siglap was being offered at a guide price of $28 million. Chia and Ng are joint owners of the site.<\/p>\n The LC Nursing Home website states that Chia has over 50 years of experience in the medical and eldercare industry.<\/p>\n It also states that he is the founder and CEO of Charis Medika Hospital in Batam, CYP Charity Nursing Home in Johor Bahru and Xentific Group (International), a company sited at the same address as LC Nursing Home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 \u00a0LC Nursing Home in Siglap is the second nursing home to be slapped with a closing down order by the Ministry of Health…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823","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=64823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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