Nursing home report delay questioned

Social Development Minister Sue Stultz is facing questions over continued delays in releasing her inform upon replacing or renovating aging nursing homes.The Progressive Conservative supervision put a reason upon a former Liberal governments nursing home infrastructure plan shortly after it came in to office last year.Stultz said last month that her inform upon nursing homes was finished as well as was going prior to cabinet for approval. She also said a inform would be released prior to a legislature returning upon Nov. 23.The legislature is set to break this week until Mar as well as a amicable development minister still has not disclosed a report.On Friday, Stultz fielded questions in a legislature about electrical problems at Mount St. Joseph Nursing Home in Miramichi. It was one of 11 homes due to be transposed under a Liberal plan.In September, Miramichi Fire Chief Randy MacTavish wrote in a letter to a home administrator that it might not be possible to leave upper-floor residents in a serious fire."The results could indeed be catastrophic in a worst-case scenario," he wrote.The amicable development minister wouldn't verbalise to reporters upon Friday about a ongoing delay. But, she told a legislature: "The safety issues at a nursing home in question have been addressed as well as are being addressed, so there are no safety issues there."Her spokesperson said a fire-safety issues are treated as a tall priority, as well as don't hinge upon a review of a infrastructure plan. She said they will be bound "as shortly as possible," though did not give a specific date.New Brunswick is balancing a competing demands of an aging race as well as a deteriorating state of its nursing home infrastructure against its getting worse financial outlook.The former Liberal supervision voiced a five-year, $400-million infrastructure plan in 2009 that would have transposed as well as renovated a stock of nursing homes.That plan would have created 700 new nursing home spots. The plan endorsed a provincial supervision set up dual new nursing homes, reinstate 11 nursing homes with new facilities as well as renovate 31 buildings.Stultz has already reviewed a little of a projects that are in a construction phase. Those projects continued though a little cost savings were found.There are 4,140 residents in a provinces 65 nursing homes. But there are more than 700 seniors occupying hospital beds since there are no beds available in nursing homes.

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