The Australian Nursing Federation has called on the Anglican church to step in to save $500,000 worth of entitlements owed to staff at the condemned Bridgewater Aged Care Facility.

The 130 staff at the Melbourne nursing home not only lost their jobs when administrators failed to find a buyer but say their superannuation contributions have also gone.

A creditors' meeting will be held next month to propose that the operators of Bridgewater - Vitality Care Commissioning and Vitality Care Operations - be placed into liquidation.

This would allow staff to access the federal government's General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme (GEERS) which will fund leave and redundancy entitlements.

But that fund doesn't secure $500,000 in superannuation contributions.

The Nursing Federation (ANF) has called on the Anglican Church, which holds the largest shareholding in Vitality, to step in.

"The Anglican Church should guarantee the superannuation owed to the nursing staff," ANF Victorian assistant secretary Yvonne Chaperon said.

She also questioned how the federal government could allow the home to fall over.

"There should be federal government intervention at the first sign an aged care facility is in trouble so tragedies such as this do not occur," she said.

Nursing staff have worked tirelessly to keep the centre, in the northern suburb of Roxburgh Park, functioning effectively and continued to provide quality care to residents in "trying" circumstances, she said.

Ms Chaperon called on the government to tighten industry regulation.

"The aged care sector should be made accountable for how it spends the millions of dollars of federal government subsidies it receives annually," she said.

Bridgewater residents and investors held a meeting on Monday night to try to keep the home open but were told that efforts to sell the facility as a going concern had failed.

The 81 residents have a month to find new accommodation.

Administrator Stephen Longley of PricewaterhouseCoopers said it was a disappointing outcome for everyone involved.

"We were working to achieve the sale by close of business yesterday but were unable to demonstrate that there was sufficient funding to continue to operate for another month, which was the realistic time frame needed to complete the proposed sale," Mr Longley said.

Liquidation will trigger the refund of accommodation bonds paid by residents and former residents to Bridgewater under the accommodation bond guarantee legislation.

Source:  AAP