2026-08-05 from vancouversun.com

Jason M. Sutherland: Our acute care hospitals are functioning as expensive beds for vulnerable citizens awaiting a more suitable place to take them in. This crisis was foreseen. It could have been prevented.

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed and being told by a doctor that you are well enough to leave, only to discover you cannot. Not because you want to stay, but because there is nowhere safe for you to go. No home-care support, no rehabilitation space, no long-term care bed.

This is unfortunately the daily reality for thousands of Canadians.

Being stuck in a hospital bed is a crisis from coast to coast. Our acute-care hospitals are functioning as wildly expensive beds for vulnerable citizens awaiting a more suitable place to take them in.

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