Province announces funding for seven LTC facilities in four regions
The province of Ontario has announced funding for a host of construction and renovation projects in the long-term care sector across four southern Ontario regions.
Combined, the projects in Waterloo Region, Ajax, Scarborough and Mississauga will create or upgrade more than 1,400 beds across seven facilities.
The largest of the projects sees 524 beds either built or upgraded at two new long-term care homes in Scarborough.
Midland Gardens Care Community will be redeveloped with plans to construct an additional six-storey building attached to the existing home. There will be 21 new and 299 upgraded beds as part of the new construction. Construction is expected to start in fall 2022.
Altamont Scarborough will include a total of 448 beds. This includes a new allocation for 204 upgraded beds, combined with previous allocations of 85 new beds and 159 upgraded beds. Construction is expected to start in summer 2023.
Across Waterloo Region, provincial funding will add 364 new beds, upgrade a further 84, and build three new long-term care homes. Specifically, 192 new beds will be added at a new home in Cambridge, with construction expected to start by spring 2023; 160 new beds will be added at a new home in St. Jacobs, with construction also expected to start in early 2023; and 12 new and 84 upgraded beds will be added at Schlegel Villages’ The Village of Winston Park in Kitchener.
In Mississauga, government funding will support the addition of 138 new beds and 118 upgraded beds at the Streetsville Care Community long-term care home. The facility is a long-term care home that will be part of a campus of care, which helps integrate the home into the broader health care system and ensures residents have access to the care they need. The home is expected to start construction by spring 2023.
Finally, in Ajax, the government has allocated funding for 192 new long-term care beds at Schlegel Villages Ajax, a new long-term care home in Durham Region. That project is also expected to break ground in spring 2023.
The announcements are part of the province’s commitment of $6.4 billion to build more than 30,000 net new beds by 2028 and upgrade about 28,000 long-term care beds across the province.
With those recent project announcements, Ontario now has 20,934 new and 16,693 upgraded beds in the development pipeline. That means that more than 69 percent of the 30,000 net new beds being delivered are in the planning, construction and completed stages of the development process.
Featured image: Midland Gardens Care Community in Scarborough. (Midland Gardens Care Community)