A hospital ward for elderly people will close, bosses have confirmed. Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust said ward 23 at ...

A bed allocator is the person in charge of all the movements of bodies, alive or dead, in the hospital. One cannot just put a patient anywhere — it depends on infection level, type of stay, and ...

The acute care psychiatric ward at The Ottawa Hospital is no place for an elderly dementia patient, says an Ottawa woman whose husband’s condition worsened during the two months he spent on the ...

Vernon Jubilee Hospital is separating pediatric mental health patients needing extra support from its maternity ward, ...

BACKGROUND: Transfer of patient care from an intensive care unit (ICU) to a hospital ward is often challenging, high risk and inefficient. We assessed patient and provider perspectives on barriers and ...

In fact, Canada has relatively fewer hospital beds than many other industrialized countries. There were 2.7 beds for every 1,000 Canadians according to 2012 figures.

When the pandemic hit the province back in the spring, the Unit 9 psychiatric ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown was emptied of patients to clear the way for potential COVID-19 ...