Private nursing homes across the Island will get up to 100 new beds over the next year.
The provincial government is requesting proposals until July 25 for the first 50 beds to be ready for occupancy by October and the remaining beds to be available by next June.
The addition of new long-term care beds was outlined in government’s 2018-19 budget.
Long-term care in P.E.I. is provided in nine public manors and nine private nursing homes.
Over the past decade, 145 new long-term care beds have been added across the province, increasing the overall number of beds from 996 to the current 1,141. During the same time, the overall provincial budget allocation for public manors and private nursing home grants has increased by 81.7 per cent, from $53 million to $96.3 million this year.
For more information about long-term care services, visit www.healthpei.ca/longtermcare.
