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New Brunswick’s most recent nursing home plan was released in 2018, a five-year strategy calling for 619 new beds by 2023. That goal will be reached this summer, but no additional beds are in the works.
Stakeholders frustrated by lack of planning to deal with province’s aging population.
Silas Brown · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 20, 2026 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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More than 1,000 people around the province are waiting for places in nursing homes. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
Only 120 new nursing home beds will be created this year in New Brunswick, and there are no plans to build more.
Richard Losier, the head of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes, finds the lack of planning in an aging province frustrating.
“There’s not one plan in progress, not one drawing in progress to my knowledge, which is not acceptable because we know that demand is there,” he said.
Right now there are 1,076 people on the waiting list for a nursing home placement. Roughly half of those are alternative level of care patients, or people who have been medically discharged but remain in hospital while waiting for a bed in a long-term care facility.
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