As 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.
Over third of hospital beds across network taken by patients waiting for nursing homes
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 27, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Nursing home beds will be created in New Brunswick hospitals to help address an issue of elderly patients waiting for nursing homes taking up beds. (CBC)
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.
“We know that space for care is not where it needs to be today,” said David Arbeau, the network’s clinical executive director overseeing patient flow, at a Horizon board meeting on Thursday.
Horizon officials said over a third of beds across the health network were taken up by what it called alternative level of care,
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