As elderly patients waiting for nursing home beds to open up continues to plague New Brunswick hospitals, Horizon Health Network is rolling out a new approach to the problem. Hospitals will now start to find new spaces to create nursing home beds within them. Horizon officials said over a third of beds across the health network were taken up by what it called alternative level of care, or ALC, patients as of last month. Asked if that announcement would change Horizon’s plans for internal nursing home beds, Elizabeth McCaw, the physician program lead with Horizon, said no. “We absolutely do need to continue on with the plan for the internal nursing home beds because our numbers exceed that,” McCaw said.

Source: CBC News March 27, 2026 15:01 UTC