- Ensure resident privacy by creating individual space (even in a basic room with a shared bathroom).
- Room design supports infection prevention and outbreak isolation practices.
- Limit sound and odour transmission.
- Provide visual privacy by minimizing shared sightlines (residents can’t see one another in the washroom or when receiving care).
- Support staff safety (providing adequate space on either side of the toilet to support care)
Redeveloping Rockwood Terrace
Long-Term Care Design Principles
Resident experience is central to all planning and design of the home. We engaged with residents, family members, and staff working in the home to ensure our designs will work for everyone in the home. These are the four key design principals we considered.
- Improved laundry system separating dirty and clean laundry through barrier washers (dirty laundry goes into a machine dirty in one room and comes out clean in a separate room).
- Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) is more easily supported through room design.
- Laundry chutes minimize contaminated laundry travelling through the building.
- Larger dining room to support two smaller 16-resident dining spaces to create a more pleasurable dining experience with less noise and more community feel.
- Space to support safe storage of wheelchairs and walkers
- Nooks and seating alcoves for residents to gather for visits with each other or guests (indoors and outdoors).
- Cognitive stimulation stations.
- Barrier free paths of travel with no dead ends.
- Natural walking routes to support residents who enjoy wandering.
- No resident rooms at the end of a path to decrease residents wandering into someone else’s room.
Funding Development
The Province will cover approximately 30% of the cost of constructing 128 long-term care beds. Grey County will receive an annual transfer over 25 years. The County is required to secure a loan to pay for full construction costs up front.
Next Steps
- Design Activities (Completion Fall 2023)
- Pre-Construction Sitework (Ongoing Winter 2024)
- Tender (Issued Winter 2024)
- Construction (2024 – 2026)
- Project Substantial Completion (2026)
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