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Jacob Shteyman

Manager of scandal-plagued Oakden care home banned

The mental health facility for older patients was closed in 2017 after a scathing review. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

A manager at a "medically unsafe" Adelaide mental health facility has had his licence to practise revoked almost six years after an investigation found damning evidence of patient neglect.

Kerim Frederick Skelton failed to adequately supervise and manage staff for the care of vulnerable, elderly people who were, in many cases, suffering from significant disabilities or other medical conditions, the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found after an investigation by health regulator AHPRA.

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