Monday, March 23, 2026
Hospital to Home helping patients recover at home and freeing up hospital beds
After three weeks in hospital recovering from a broken back, Marlene Keefe returned home in severe pain, using mobility aids and facing the reality of recovering alone.
Fiercely independent and hesitant to accept help, she wasn’t sure she wanted anyone coming into her home. That is, until she worked with her care team at Health Sciences North to enroll in the province’s Hospital to Home (H2H) program.
“I didn’t think it was for me,” she said. “I like to do things myself.”
Now, she says enrolling was one of the best decisions she made during her recovery. Marlene is one of hundreds of patients benefiting from Hospital to Home, a provincially supported transitional care program that helps patients who no longer require acute hospital care continue their recovery safely at home.