Ontario is celebrating the completion of Tsi Thonwatihsnye’s Long-Term Care Home.
With construction complete and capacity expanded, Ontario is providing a safe and supportive not-for-profit home for 128 residents in the Tyendinaga community.
The new space was developed by the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation and will offer culturally appropriate services to the local Mohawk Elders, helping them to maintain connections to their language, culture, and community.
This project ensures long-term care residents get the quality of life and care they require and deserve, as part of the government’s initiative to protect Ontario, create jobs, and build for the future.
The home creates a more intimate and familiar living space for up to 32 residents with their own dining and activity areas, lounges, and bedrooms.
The home also includes 24/7 nursing with rooms for spiritual care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, recreation, and spaces for worship. Dementia services and behavioural support are also provided.
In terms of the outdoor landscape, there are walking trails, gardens, and wooded areas for residents, staff, and the community to enjoy.
When asked what this long-term care facility means for the Tyendinaga and Mohawk community, Natalia Kusendova-Bashta, Minister of Long-Term Care and Francophone Affairs, says, “I think what’s really important to the community here is that their Elders can be taken care of right within the territory, so they do not have to leave the territory to receive the specialized care in the golden years of their life.”
She also says that the “intergenerational wisdom” of the Elders will remain embedded in the Tyendinaga community because of the local, specialized care they will now receive.
Kusendova-Bashta states that this home is part of an ambitious goal at the Ministry of Long-Term Care “to build 58,000 new and redeveloped modern, long-term care homes.”
Tsi Thonwatihsnye’s Long-Term Care Home will also support approximately 170 well-paying jobs, including full-time positions in nursing, personal support work, nutrition services, programming, and administration.
The home is expecting to welcome its first residents later this summer.
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