Ontario Celebrates the Opening of Extendicare Limestone Ridge

June 11, 2025

New home brings 192 modern long-term care beds to Kingston

June 11, 2025

KINGSTON — The government is protecting Ontario’s long-term care system and ensuring seniors get the quality of care and quality of life they need and deserve by opening the newly built Extendicare Limestone Ridge long-term care home (formerly Extendicare Kingston). The new home will feature 150 redeveloped beds and 42 new beds, creating a 192-bed home in Kingston, Ontario.

“This opening is great news for residents of Kingston and is part of our plan to protect seniors and increase access to world-class care across our province,” said John Jordan, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Long-Term Care. “The opening of Extendicare Limestone Ridge marks an important milestone for the people of Kingston and the future residents who now have a new place to call home.”

The home is designed with six self-contained ‘resident home areas’ (RHAs), each of which creates a more intimate and familiar living space for up to 32 residents. Each RHA has resident rooms, a dining area, activity space and a spa room. The home also provides enhanced programming, including restorative and palliative care, as well as a café/country kitchen, space for family dining, a chapel, and a beauty salon and barber shop.

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, 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 they need at every age. The plan to improve care for 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 June 2025, 147 projects representing a total of 23,977 new and redeveloped beds are completed, under construction, or have ministry approval to construct.
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 Ontario’s historical 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.