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A Winnipeg personal-care home that was expected to close later this spring will be keeping its doors open after intervention by the province, the Manitoba government said on Monday.Â
The Golden Door Geriatric Centre, located along the Pembina Highway in Fort Garry, had notified the local health region of its intention to stop operating by March 31, according to a provincial news release.Â
The 78-bed care home, which is publicly funded, stopped accepting new admissions last March following a closure notice, the release said. As of last week, there were more than two dozen vacant beds at the facility, the province said.Â
The province said it plans to refill those 25 vacant beds.
The government said losing those beds would have “displaced residents,” while many care homes are “operating near full capacity.”
Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara said their government is “rebuilding long-term care” and it “will not allow beds to disappear from our communities.”
The province said it started an expropriation process after negotiations to acquire Golden Door didn’t end in an agreement.Â
The provincial government will appoint an interim management team, the release said.
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