Haut-Richelieu-Rouville (Montérégie) Long-Term Care Centre (CHSLD)

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Opportunity Québec’s public residential long-term care centres (CHSLD) are specialized health care institutions that provide housing, nursing, rehabilitation, surveillance and pharmaceuticals for those who are no longer capable of caring for themselves in their own homes. Housing costs for residents of CHSLDs are fixed by the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec and are calculated depending on the income of the person being housed. As the baby boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1969) ages over the next twenty years, many areas of Québec will see an increase in elderly residents who require assisted living, putting pressure on the province’s existing long-term care centres. The Montérégie region, which covers an 11,000 square-kilometer region and has a population of 1.4 million, is expected to have a larger increase in the number of elderly residents over the next twenty years as compared to the rest of the province. Between 1996 and 2007 the median age of the region’s population that is 65 and over increased by 40 per cent. In order to meet future demand for long-term care housing it was necessary for the Government of Québec to construct new CHSLDs in Montérégie. Innovations The project was procured along with two other long-term care facilities in Montérégie and one in Laval, however all four projects underwent separate processes to select a preferred proponent and each has its own Project Agreement. Results The project resulted in a 66-bed long-term care facility. The Montérégie region will be better equipped to deal with the increase in residents requiring assisted living.

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