{"id":520410,"date":"2026-03-07T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520410\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:48:09","slug":"evans-calls-for-more-mental-health-beds-to-address-system-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520410\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans Calls for More Mental Health Beds to Address System Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/health-minister-lela-evans.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Evans Calls for More Mental Health Beds to Address System Strain\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health believes the province\u2019s new mental health facility is \u201cunderstaffed and doesn\u2019t meet the mental health needs of patients\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lela Evans says the province needs to find more beds to help ease the strain on the system.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0would like to see the current six beds available in Labrador increased, as well as more beds for the province\u2019s west coast and Northern Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, as always, is staffing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure that we have the people on the ground to deliver them. It\u2019s just so important. And over in the west coast, we do need to make sure that people over on the west coast, up on the Northern Peninsula, people in Labrador,\u201d says Evans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Minister of Health believes the province\u2019s new mental health facility is \u201cunderstaffed and doesn\u2019t meet the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-520410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}