The cuts mean the highly specialized, integrated team of nurses, doctors and other professionals that used to watch over the frailest patients is now dispersed.
"We hope that these nurses will progressively influence how things work on different services," said Morais. "Plus our team will be there and working with them and making the hospital develops the right approach to that frail population."
The doctors will still follow patients and the out-patient clinic is still functioning, he said.
But Morais acknowledges that with more than 30 per cent of admissions being geriatric, no single ward was going to be able to care for them.
He said health care professionals in all divisions will need to learn to manage geriatric conditions such as incontinence, dementia, mobility issues and nutrition.