Centre Hastings has worked hard in 2023 to expand its long-term care options and housing, and those efforts are bearing fruit.
Centre Hastings Mayor Tom Deline said that he and his staff worked hard to secure funding for the construction of a new 120-bed long-term care home in the community.
“Staff has worked very hard on that,” said Deline. “It’ll be all one floor, which is a great thing if you have an emergency. It’ll employ a good number of people.”
With the funding secure, the care home is expected to open in 2025.
The focus wasn’t just on expanding available long-term care beds, as work was also done to grow the housing stock in the community.
Mayor Deline said they had applied for federal funding to support a major housing development.
“If we get it, it will allow us over the next number of years, and I would say seven, eight years, to increase our housing stock by about 550 units, which is very good,” said Mayor Deline.
The funds are planned to be used for preparation work before the main development of the new homes.
