Ontario Breaks Ground on Two Long-Term Care Homes in Barrie
August 5, 2025
New projects will bring 337 modern long-term care beds to the community
BARRIE — Construction is underway at the Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens and the Village of Innis Landing long-term care home in Barrie. Both projects are recipients of the Construction Funding Subsidy top-up and are part of the government’s plan to protect Ontario by creating good jobs and building for the future, while ensuring long-term care residents get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve.
“As Ontario continues to grow, our government is making historic investments to protect families and their loved ones,” said Natalia Kusendova-Bashta, Minister of Long-Term Care. “Today’s announcement is great news for Barrie and will ensure that 337 residents will get the care they need, in modern and safe homes.”
The Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens is upgrading 62 of its existing beds and adding two new beds, for a total of 145 beds in the home. The project will also update the nursing call system, improve fire detection and suppression systems and introduce new monitoring features to ensure resident safety. The home will house a café and community hub space, with mechanical lifts added to resident rooms. The property will also have a newly redesigned outdoor space.
The Village of Innis Landing project involves the redevelopment of Coleman Care Centre. The new home is adding 80 beds for a total of 192 beds. The home will include expansive common spaces to support a variety of care and recreational programming, along with various opportunities for residents to engage with one another and visitors.
Both homes will feature designs that include larger resident common areas and air conditioning throughout. The homes are centred around ‘Resident Home Areas’, each of which creates a more intimate and familiar living space for up to 32 residents, with dining and activity areas, lounges and bedrooms.
These projects are part of the Ontario government’s continued progress toward its commitment to build 58,000 new and upgraded long-term care beds across the province, as outlined in the 2025 Ontario Budget: A Plan to Protect Ontario. The government is improving long-term care to ensure Ontarians get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve. The plan to improve care for long-term care residents 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.
Quick Facts
- As of July 2025, 148 projects representing a total of 24,101 new and redeveloped beds are completed, under construction, or have ministry approval to construct.
- The Construction Funding Subsidy top-up was first introduced in 2022, resulting in the largest construction of long-term care projects the government has achieved in a single year. Eligible projects receive a top-up of $35 per bed, per day, for 25 years, with additional supports for not-for-profits.
- The government is continuing its ambitious and extensive long-term care construction campaign by introducing the 2025 long-term care capital funding program to build on its historic investment levels.
- Ontario will also be launching a new construction funding support program to ensure long-term care operators and builders have additional flexibility and support to continue the province’s historic level of construction. Building more modern, safe and comfortable homes for our residents is part of the Government of Ontario’s Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021.
- The province is taking innovative steps to get long-term care homes built, including modernizing its funding model, selling unused lands with the requirement that long-term care homes be built on portions of the properties, and leveraging hospital-owned land to build urgently needed homes in large urban areas.