MOH revokes LC Nursing Home’s licence; 78 residents to be moved

The Ministry of Health has revoked the licence of LC Nursing Home in Siglap with effect from 23 November 2026, after audits found “serious and systemic” lapses in care, medication, infection control and safety. The 93-bed home’s 78 residents will be transferred, and an interim Vanguard Healthcare team is already on site. It is the second nursing home licence revocation in under two weeks, after Windsor Convalescent Home.

What happened

On 29 June 2026, MOH issued a notice of licence revocation to LC Nursing Home (Pte.) Limited, informing the operator of its decision to revoke the home’s licence to provide nursing home services with effect from 23 November 2026. From that date, the home may no longer operate at its premises at 2 Jalan Ulu Siglap, Singapore 457121.

LC Nursing Home holds an HCSA licence to run a 93-bed nursing home service and currently cares for 78 residents. MOH said the November effective date takes into account the time needed to transfer those 78 residents to other nursing homes. But because of the seriousness of what it found, the ministry did not wait until November to step in: it deployed an interim care team from Vanguard Healthcare to the home from 29 June 2026 “to ensure that residents continue to receive proper care throughout this process.”

This is the second such case in quick succession. MOH noted that the action follows similar regulatory action against Windsor Convalescent Home in Pasir Panjang, whose licence is being revoked from 30 October 2026. Two nursing home revocations within a fortnight is highly unusual in Singapore.

MOH takes a serious view of the lapses found in these two nursing homes. The decision to revoke both nursing homes’ licences was taken only after careful assessment that they could not provide adequate nursing home services. — Ministry of Health, 29 June 2026 statement

What MOH’s audits found

The revocation was not a first strike. According to MOH, audits in November and December 2025 had already turned up “serious and systemic” non-compliance with HCSA requirements. LC Nursing Home was given the chance to put things right, under stricter and closer monitoring, before MOH decided whether further action was needed.

A follow-up audit in April 2026 then tested whether the fixes had taken hold. MOH said the home “had failed to fully implement certain rectifications or sustain rectification of earlier identified lapses, with new and repeated non-compliances.” The specific lapses MOH listed were:

• Inadequate clinical and nursing careFailure to conduct appropriate reviews or monitoring for residents — including for falls, restraint practices and pressure injuries; failure to adhere to wound care protocols; and poor medication management, including poorly maintained medication stock, medication errors, and medication administered by care staff without suitable credentials.
• Failure to provide adequate basic careFailure to adhere to food hygiene practices and to implement safe food processes in preparing residents’ meals.
• Inadequate infection prevention and controlFailure to implement infection prevention and control measures; and failure to ensure environmental hygiene, with suboptimal pest control.
• Failure to ensure a safe environmentPoorly maintained infrastructure and environment, with multiple hazards posing injury risks to both residents and staff.

MOH had issued its notice of intended revocation on 2 June 2026, setting out the key non-compliances and giving the home 14 days to make representations. LC Nursing Home’s representations, received on 16 June 2026, did not refute the findings — the operator acknowledged them — but its remedial plan was, in MOH’s words, “very brief, without clear milestones set,” and did not give sufficient assurance. After weighing the representations and the April audit, MOH assessed that the home could not continue to provide nursing home services safely.

What this means for residents and families

The four-and-a-half-month runway to 23 November is deliberate: moving frail nursing home residents too abruptly can itself cause harm. In the meantime, the interim Vanguard Healthcare team is on site, and no new residents will be admitted before the revocation takes effect. Vanguard and AIC will contact every affected resident and next-of-kin and prioritise arrangements to transfer residents to other nursing homes.

About LC Nursing Home

LC Nursing Home is a privately run nursing home at 2 Jalan Ulu Siglap, in Singapore’s east, a short walk from Siglap. It was founded in 1994 and provides 24-hour residential care, including for medically complex needs such as tracheostomy and dialysis support. Although privately operated, it is an approved provider of subsidised care under the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act (MECESA) and is listed by AIC — meaning eligible Singaporean and Permanent Resident residents can receive means-tested MOH subsidies, rather than paying the full fee.

How it unfolded

• Nov & Dec 2025
  MOH audits find “serious and systemic” non-compliance with HCSA requirements. The home is told to remediate, under stricter, closer monitoring.
• April 2026
  A re-audit finds the home failed to fully implement or sustain the fixes, with new and repeated non-compliances across care, medication, food hygiene, infection control and safety.
• 2 June 2026
  MOH issues a notice of intended revocation, setting out the key non-compliances and giving the home 14 days to make representations.
• 16 June 2026
  LC Nursing Home’s representations are received. It acknowledges the findings but its remedial plan is brief and lacks clear milestones.
• 29 June 2026
  MOH issues the revocation notice (effective 23 November 2026) and deploys an interim Vanguard Healthcare team to the home the same day.
• 23 November 2026
  The revocation takes effect. The home may no longer provide nursing home services; its 78 residents are to be transferred before then.

The bigger picture

MOH said the LC Nursing Home audit was part of a wider exercise auditing selected nursing homes — those with identified areas for improvement — to gauge compliance with infection prevention and control and with basic custodial and nursing care. The ministry said it “will not hesitate to take regulatory actions” where licensees or key appointment holders fall short. It also intends to share the audit findings with the sector and work with AIC to enhance support, including training to help homes meet the required standards.

For families, two revocations in two weeks are unsettling, but they show the regulator using its strongest power when the basics of care are not met. The checklist MOH applies is one any visiting family can use: ask how a home reviews falls and pressure injuries, who supervises the medication round and who is allowed to give medication, how food is prepared and stored, and how infection control and maintenance are handled. Our directory publishes the before-subsidy fee and subsidy picture for every home, and flags regulatory standing where MOH takes public action.

A note on the founder

LC Nursing Home was founded in 1994 by Dr Chia Yang Pong. The Straits Times has separately reported on his professional background, including that he was struck off the medical register in 2004 — a matter unrelated to the operation of this nursing home. We note it for completeness only; nothing in MOH’s decision is attributed to it.

Editorial independence. NursingHomeGuide.sg is an information directory. We do not accept payment to influence rankings, reviews, or editorial content, and regulatory standing is never for sale. The facts in this report — dates, resident numbers, audit findings and lapses — are drawn from MOH’s 29 June 2026 newsroom release, with facility and fee details from our own directory and the public corporate registry. Regulatory situations change — verify the latest position with MOH, AIC (1800-650-6060), or the facility before making care decisions. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it promptly.
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