New 144-bed long-term care home opens in Dartmouth, N.S.

Kring Liban (left) and Susan Andreyck, both registered nurses working at the new Opal Ridge Hall long-term care home in Dartmouth. (Source: Province of Nova Scotia)

Nova Scotia announced the opening of a new long-term care home in Dartmouth on Monday.

Opal Ridge Hall will have single rooms with private washrooms for each resident. The 144-bed facility is operated by Shannex.

“Opal Ridge Hall is a comfortable, new facility for seniors to call home where they will live with dignity and be cared for by highly skilled staff. It will quickly become an important part of the Dartmouth community,” said Barbara Adams, minister of Seniors and Long-Term Care. “Through this generational investment, we are building and replacing thousands of long-term care rooms across Nova Scotia so that we are ready to meet the growing care needs of seniors well into the future.”

This is the fifth long-term care home opened by the province of more than the 50 expected to be built by 2032.

The other new and replacement homes now open are Villa Acadienne in Meteghan, Kiknu Long-Term Care Home in Eskasoni, Mahone Bay Nursing Home and Moody Hall in Bedford.

The Opal Ridge Hall long-term care home has nine “neighbourhoods” which will be home to 16 residents each. Along with the resident rooms, each neighbourhood has a dining room, living room and activity areas.

The new and replacement homes are designed to follow best practices for infection control and resident and staff safety.

Residents will begin moving into the home this week.

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