Ex-boss sues care homes for $2.36m
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A CHURCH-RUN aged care operator is being sued by its sacked chief executive – and is now demanding a taxpayer bailout to cover multi-milliondollar losses.
Sacked Prescare boss Greg Skelton is suing the Presbyterian Church-owned nursing home provider for $2.36 million in lost wages and damages.
Prescare operates five nursing homes in the Brisbane suburbs of Carina and Thornlands, and in Townsville, Rockhampton and Maryborough. It made a $12.6 million loss last year, its latest financial report reveals.
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) deemed Prescare’s Protea Townsville nursing home to be a “serious risk’’ to residents after failing a quality inspection in April last year.
ACQSC reaccredited the service after it passed an audit in January.
Mr Skelton was stood down in February, just two years into a five-and-a-half-year contract, and a month before he retired from the board of the scandal-plagued Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association (PMSA).
Mr Skelton, who declined to be interviewed, spent five years as chairman of PMSA’S audit, finance and risk committee.
In his statement of claim, filed in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Mr Skelton said Prescare paid him a $500,000 annual package that included a $430,000 salary, the use of two cars worth $35,000, a $10,000 education allowance, superannuation payments and a $7000 “health and wellbeing’’ allowance.
He said Prescare sacked him without reason, paid him $165,384 in lieu of notice and ordered him to leave the building at a late-night meeting on February 20 at Prescare’s headquarters in Milton.
Mr Skelton alleges PresCare knew that by terminating his contract, he would suffer financial loss, stress, and emotional or psychological pain. He also alleges Prescare knew he would suffer “a loss, or damage to his reputation’’ among church ministers and “elders’’.
He alleges the action was “harsh and unreasonable’’.
Mr Skelton had worked as Pres-care’s CEO since 2013, and previously as its chief financial officer for 11 years.
A federal Health Department spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that Prescare was seeking extra taxpayer funding through the Federal Government’s $850 million COVID-19 assistance scheme.
“The department is not aware of an intention for any Prescare aged care services to close,’’ she said.