Horizon Health Network will not meet its self-imposed deadline to move the medical transition unit at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital from an ambulance bay to a hospital ward with bathrooms and running water.
Use of ambulance bay during bed shortage faced backlash this year over lack of bathrooms, running water
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 27, 2026 1:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Patients are being housed in an ambulance bay at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital. (Submitted by David Coon)
Horizon Health Network will not meet its self-imposed deadline to move the medical transition unit at a Fredericton hospital from an ambulance bay to a hospital ward with bathrooms and running water.
In January, the health network said some electrodiagnostic and respiratory therapy outpatient services at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital would be moved to a community location by March 31.
This would allow the medical transition unit to be moved to 4 West, an inpatient unit at the Fredericton hospital, Horizon said at the time.
“I am hoping that we will have significant progress throughout the month of April,
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