{"id":945430,"date":"2026-10-25T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:20:14","slug":"province-expands-hospital-capacity-in-preparation-for-respiratory-virus-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945430\/","title":{"rendered":"Province expands hospital capacity in preparation for respiratory virus season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fd779065-13f9-40aa-9c0a-8c826e5259bc.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: ID 33347172 \u00a9  Alexander  Raths | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By rdnewsNOW staff<\/p>\n<p>9,000 acute care spaces<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 24, 2026 | 6:13 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Alberta has expanded hospital capacity ahead of respiratory virus season.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the province has added over 9,000 acute care spaces and introduced a new triage program to prepare for an increase in demand.<\/p>\n<p>The province explained there are now over 221 hospital spaces open across the province, such as 79 in Calgary, 102 in Edmonton, and another 194 temporary spaces available if needed. The 194 temporary spaces can be activated if demand increases beyond existing hospital capacity.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Acute Care Alberta (ACA) and Assisted Living Alberta have contributed to increased capacity over the past year through initiatives such as the Homecare and Hospital to Home Pathway that have freed the equivalent of 175 acute care beds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: ID 33347172 \u00a9 Alexander Raths | Dreamstime.com) By rdnewsNOW staff 9,000 acute care spaces Oct 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-945430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945430","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=945430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}