The aged care watchdog has refused to accept responsibility for abuse and mistreatment of residents at Adelaide's Oakden nursing home.
Australian Aged Care Quality Agency chief executive, Nick Ryan, was grilled about the organisation's handling of the saga during a Senate inquiry hearing on Monday night.
"Poor care is unacceptable and where there is an incident of poor care and a pervasive culture as there was at Oakden, every single part of the system clearly has the opportunity to learn lessons," Mr Ryan said.
He wouldn't accept responsibility for the neglect and abuse.
"It's the provider that is responsible," he said.
Mr Ryan acknowledged his organisation could have done better, should have dug deeper and not accepted misinformation from the home.
"That home should not have fallen off our watch list," he said.
"Questions about blame are a different issue."
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