More scrutiny needed to prevent thousands of premature nursing home deaths

Patrina Cole believes her father, 77-year-old Pietro De Cicco, didn't need to die after a fall in the Oakden nursing home in 2014.

"He actually had a gash on the left side of his head which they didn't tell me on the phone, they didn't tell my mum on the phone," Ms Cole told 7.30.

"I think my dad would have most definitely been alive if it wasn't for what happened there at Oakden that day."

Mr De Cicco is just one of thousands of nursing home residents who have died premature and preventable deaths, according to researchers at Monash University.

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