The Ontario government breaks ground on a new long-term care home in Bowmanville. Glen Hill Gardens will bring much needed long-term care beds to the province. Construction will soon be underway at Glen Hill Gardens. This is part of the government's $6.4 billion commitment to build more than 30,000 new beds by 2028 and 28,000 upgraded long-term care beds across the province.
Glen Hill Terrace Christian Homes Inc., a not-for-profit long-term care organization, is proposing to operate Glen Hill Gardens pending final government approvals. The home is expecting its first residents in early 2025. The project will include:
- 125 new beds
- 99 upgraded beds
- Private rooms (no ward rooms)
- Larger resident common areas
- Air conditioning throughout the home
Ontario Newsroom states that the project will also be eligible to apply for the government's time-limited construction funding subsidy increase, designed to help fast-track the start of construction of new and upgraded long-term care beds across the province by the end of summer 2023. The additional construction subsidy increase of up to $35 per bed, per day for 25 years will help more beds to get built sooner.
"Congratulations to Glen Hill Gardens on their ground-breaking for a brand new home. Our government is fixing long-term care and a key part of that plan is building modern, safe, and comfortable homes for our seniors. Two new long-term care homes have opened in Durham Region since the spring of 2021 and with the addition of Glen Hill Gardens, 224 residents will have a new place to call home in Bowmanville, near their family and friends."
Minister of Long-Term Care | Paul Calandra
Insauga reports that in addition to projects like Glen Hill Gardens in Bowmanville, Ontario is supporting another 11 projects in Durham Region, including long-term care homes in the following areas:
- Oshawa
- Ajax
- Pickering
- New Castle
- Bowmanville
- Courtice
- Port Perry
- Cannington
- Uxbridge
Together, these 12 projects will provide 1,504 new and 968 upgraded long-term care beds, for a total of 2,472 beds built to modern design standards.
As of August 2022, more than 39,000 people were on the waitlist to get a long-term care bed in Ontario. The median wait time is 125 days for applicants to be placed in long-term care.
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