Ontario Breaks Ground on New Long-Term Care Home in Niagara-on-the-Lake

October 20, 2023

Niagara-on-the-Lake – Construction is underway of a new long-term care home at Pleasant Manor in Virgil. This home is one of sixty-seven long-term care home projects fast-tracked this fall with support from the Ontario government’s increased construction funding subsidy. This is part of the Ontario government’s commitment to build more than 58,000 new and upgraded long-term care beds across the province.

“Having participated in the bed expansion announcement for Radiant Care in December 2020, I congratulate the leadership team, frontline staff and residents of Pleasant Manor on the groundbreaking today of their new 160-bed facility in Niagara-on-the-Lake,” said Sam Oosterhoff, MPP for Niagara West.

“This new facility will accommodate 119 additional new residents by 2025 and provide more than 200 local jobs. Today’s milestone event is part of our government’s bold commitment to reduce waitlists and improve the quality of life for seniors across Niagara.”

“Congratulations to Radiant Care on their ground-breaking for an expanded, new home. Our government is fixing long-term care and ensuring we build homes for seniors in the communities they helped build,” said Hon. Stan Cho, Minister of Long-Term Care.

“Today marks a significant milestone for Niagara. When construction is complete, 160 residents will have a modern and comfortable place to call home.”

Radiant Care Pleasant Manor is being built on the same site as the existing home and will provide 119 new and forty-one upgraded beds. The modernized building will feature design improvements, including larger resident common areas and air conditioning throughout the home. The design is centred around five ‘resident home areas’, each of which creates a more intimate and familiar living space for up to thirty-two residents, with dining and activity areas, lounges and bedrooms.

The new home will continue to be part of a campus of care, which helps integrate the long-term care home into the broader health care system and ensures residents can conveniently connect to the care they need. The new 160-bed home is expected to be completed and welcoming its first residents in late 2025.

As a result of the government’s supplemental increase to the construction funding subsidy, which was designed to stimulate the start of construction for more long-term care homes across Ontario, sixty-seven projects received ministry approval to construct between April 1, 2022, and August 31, 2023. This means 11,199 new and upgraded beds are now being built to modern design standards across the province.

The government is fixing long-term care to ensure Ontario’s seniors get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve, both now and in the future. The plan is built on four pillars: staffing and care; quality and enforcement; building modern, safe and comfortable homes; and connecting seniors with faster, more convenient access to the services they need.