New Brunswick N.B. nursing care bed shortage acute CBC News · Posted: Jan 24, 2011 4:02 PM PST | Last Updated: January 24, 2011 ...

In late 2019, the price per nursing care bed averaged $80,000, a value that tumbled to a pandemic low of $74,900 in the third quarter of 2020.

Health-care officials say they expect the pressure to become so intense that they have planned to open about 150 interim beds— half in a hospital setting — in the Halifax region this summer.