{"id":53283,"date":"2015-06-26T02:58:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53283"},"modified":"2015-06-26T02:58:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:58:46","slug":"summit-to-tackle-issue-of-seniors-in-new-brunswick-hospitals-awaiting-other-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/26\/summit-to-tackle-issue-of-seniors-in-new-brunswick-hospitals-awaiting-other-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit to tackle issue of seniors in New Brunswick hospitals awaiting other care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26785\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_126213080.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26785\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_126213080.jpg\" alt=\"(Shutterstock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_126213080.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_126213080-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_126213080-900x602.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Shutterstock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FREDERICTON \u2013 The New Brunswick government will hold a summit Oct. 7 in Moncton to address the issue of seniors being kept in hospitals while awaiting placement in nursing homes or other care.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Victor Boudreau says officials from the regional health authorities, nursing homes, special care homes and community-based care will be invited to give their views on how to improve care.<\/p>\n<p>He says it&#8217;s hoped they&#8217;ll be able to find ways to alleviate hospital congestion, reduce wait times and improve access to hospital beds.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreau says it&#8217;s particularly important because of New Brunswick&#8217;s aging population.<\/p>\n<p>The New Brunswick Medical Society says the best solution is to build more nursing homes in the province.<\/p>\n<p>It says the average wait time for placement in a nursing home is about four months, and the government could save millions of dollars by reducing the hospital stay of seniors awaiting other care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON \u2013 The New Brunswick government will hold a summit Oct. 7 in Moncton to address the issue of seniors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-53283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}