Ontario Breaks Ground on Long-Term Care Home in Richmond Hill

August 15, 2025

New home will bring 240 modern long-term care beds to the community

RICHMOND HILL — Construction is underway to build The Village of Westbrook Lane, a new 240-bed long-term care home in Richmond Hill. This project is a recipient of the provincial Construction Funding Subsidy top-up and is 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.

“Our government is fixing long-term care by getting shovels in the ground and ensuring residents can get care where and when they need it,” said Natalia Kusendova-Bashta, Minister of Long-Term Care. “Today’s announcement is great news for Richmond Hill and will ensure that 240 people will get the care they need in a modern, safe home.”

The first floor of the new Village of Westbrook Lane will feature a ‘Main Street’ design and include a library, community centre, hair salon, chapel, and common areas for visitors, programs and community engagement. The home’s layout is centred around eight ‘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. One Resident Home Area will be dedicated to memory care programming and another to specialized physical care, with air conditioning throughout.

The Village of Westbrook Lane is expected to welcome its first residents in 2027.

This project is 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. This is one more way the government is ensuring Ontarians get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve. The plan to improve long-term care 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.
The new program will help ensure that 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.