US EditionN.B. Fast-Tracking Nursing Home Placements as Hospitals Struggle with Overcrowding
NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA, JUL 16 – Royal Darwin Hospital faces overcrowding as 80 elderly patients await aged care beds amid Northern Territory’s highest occupancy rate at 92.2%, officials said.
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Patients at N.B. hospitals prioritized for nursing homes in attempt to free up beds - New Brunswick
New Brunswick Social Development Minister Cindy Miles has approved the temporary prioritization of patients at four hospitals who are waiting for admission to nursing homes.
N.B. hospital patients will jump the line for nursing homes
Social Development has agreed to put hospital patients ahead of the line for vacant nursing home beds for the next 30 days. The CEO of Horizon sees no other option to relieve the stress on some surgical units and emergency rooms.
The Vitality network has asked the Ministry of Social Development to recognize that Bathurst Hospital is in critical condition, so it would have the right to assign priority places in nursing homes to the seniors who are there.
Royal Darwin Hospital, NT, issues emergency as 80 patients wait for aged care beds
Royal Darwin Hospital experienced "capacity challenges" last week due to an increase in the number of patients requiring ongoing care, prompting a Code Yellow, signifying an internal emergency. "The NT has the highest aged care occupancy rate at 92.2% and the longest hospital stays for patients awaiting aged care placement," a spokesperson for the NT Health told The Weekly Source. "The NT also has fewer residential aged care beds per capita wi…
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