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Our Facility

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St. Patrick's Home is located at 2865 Riverside Drive, and is built on 5 acres across the road from the Terry Fox Athletic Complex.  The building was constructed in two stages.  The original building was erected in 1965 and was state-of-the art at the time.  In 1986, a significant change was required and what some staff still call "the new wing" was built- an addition at right angles to the building seen above, at the back. (The truly "original" St. Patrick's Home was much older - see our history.)

The 5 acres has allowed significant green space for residents in the three seasons amenable to outdoor activity, mostly strolling through "the back forty" where there is a paved path, several benches for resting and a gazebo. It now (2011) is allowing the Home to create "The New St. Pat's" without having to relocate any of the present residents. We look forward to its completion in 2013.

St. Pat's has 202 long term care beds and provides personal, nursing, and supportive services. Two of these beds are Respite beds, which provide short term care to the clients and temporary relief to the caregivers.  [Read more about Respite Care.]

One of our units is devoted to dementia care.

Individualized Care and Services

We provide the following:

• 24 hour registered nursing
• Medication supervision
• Medical director and in-house physicians scheduled and on-call
• Assistance with Activities of Daily Living
• Personal nursing care
• Physiotherapist in-house
• Specialized Alzheimer/Dementia Care
• 24 hour supervision
• Rehabilitative programming
• Weekly housekeeping
• In-house laundry services
• Social / recreational programming
• Spiritual care, daily Mass, monthly Anglican and Ecumenical services
• Palliative care
• Nightly security checks
• Special diets accommodated
• Dietary services
• Foot care

Shared Building and Site Features

• Chapel
• Library
• Auditorium
• Coffee Shop
• Hair Salon/ Barber
• Receptionist
• Secured Entry
• Secured Unit
• Resident Laundry Facilities

For a "verbal tour" of the facility