Ontario Celebrates Opening of North Bay Long-Term Care Home

New construction brings 160 modern long-term care beds to the community

The Ontario government is celebrating the opening of the new Northern Heights Community long-term care home, adding 160 modern long-term care beds to the community. This project is a recipient of the 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.

“The opening of the new Northern Heights Community home marks a significant milestone in our government’s plan to protect residents and increase access to world-class health care across the province, including here in the north,” said John Jordan, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Long-Term Care. “Now that construction is completed, 160 people have a safe and modern place to call home.”

Northern Heights replaces the existing Waters Edge Care Community long-term care home with 12 new and 148 upgraded beds in a modern home that welcomed its first residents this September. The new building is designed around five “resident home areas” (RHAs), which create a more intimate and familiar living space for up to 32 residents with their own dining and activity areas, lounges and bedrooms. The home features a kitchen, lounge, beauty salon, tuck shop and multiple courtyards.

“Since being elected, our government has made a promise: to ensure that seniors have access to the care they need and deserve, and to build a stronger, more compassionate long-term care system. We’ve delivered on that promise here in North Bay,” said Vic Fedeli, MPP for Nipissing. “The Northern Heights Community long-term care home will ensure that more seniors in Nipissing can enjoy their golden years in comfort, safety, and with the dignity they deserve. Today’s important announcement builds on our vision. It represents another step forward to ensure we are protecting Ontario to meet the needs of our aging population and expanding long-term care capacity.”

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. The government is fixing long-term care to ensure Ontarians get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve. The plan to improve 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

• The home is located in North Bay and is licensed to and operated by Sienna Senior Living Inc.
• As of November 2025, 151 projects representing a total of 24,613 new and redeveloped beds are completed, under construction, or have ministry approval to construct.
• The government is continuing its ambitious and extensive long-term care construction campaign by introducing the 2025 Long-Term Care Home Capital Funding Policy and Capital Funding Program (CFP). The CFP provides a funding framework that better reflects regional cost variations while addressing diverse operator needs within the long-term care sector.
• The CFP replaces the construction funding subsidy top-up introduced in 2022, which resulted in the largest construction of long-term care projects the government has achieved in a single year.
• 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.