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Miklos Bolza and Duncan Murray

Mass failures in unheard-of, deadly aged-care outbreak

Anglicare CEO Simon Miller has apologised after a coroner found multiple failures at Newmarch House. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

The lives of some vulnerable aged-care residents could have been saved during a devastating COVID-19 outbreak that ripped through an aged-care home if not for missteps and leadership failures.

Major service provider Anglicare on Friday offered a wide-reaching apology as a coroner handed down his damning findings after an inquest into the "unprecedented and devastating" deaths of 19 people at Sydney's Newmarch House.

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