There are 600 people in hospital waiting for placement in nursing or special care homes. Meanwhile, Horizon Health hospitals ...

A shortage of personal care home beds not only causes long wait times for seniors seeking appropriate places to live, it also contributes to hospital overcrowding and emergency-room congestion.

Somerset Council has purchased nearly 50 new beds in nursing homes in a bid to get patients discharged from hospital quicker.

Somerset Council has purchased nearly 50 new beds in nursing homes in a bid to get patients discharged from hospital quicker. Somerset’s acute hospital wards are frequently full as a result of ‘bed ...