Nursing home deaths 'natural': coroner

The coroner has found nothing suspicious about the deaths of two residents at a Queensland nursing home at the centre of an abuse probe.

The Office of the State Coroner said that over the past year it received reports about two deaths at the Kepnock Grove home at Bundaberg, which is run by Carinity Baptist Community Services.

But the coroner's office has told the ABC both deaths were from natural causes, and there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

However the centre remains the subject of an independent investigation, amid media reports it covered up cases of residents physically abusing others who lived at the home.

Carinity Baptist Community Services has rejected that claim.

It's also denied that any resident died from underfeeding, and that morphine patches were stripped from residents by a drug-abusing staff member.

The operator said it carried out an internal investigation in December which resulted in the centre's manager being sacked. The regional manager responsible for overseeing Kepnock also no longer worked there.

It said it had also made changes to how residents with dementia are managed, and carried out a review of nutrition and catering arrangements.

The independent Australian Aged Care Quality Agency is also reviewing the performance history of other facilities operated by the Baptist Union of Queensland, which trades as Carinity.