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Business View Magazine
Chinook Village
A safe and caring home for medicine hat seniors
Chinook Village is a premier, non-profit, retirement com-
munity in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The Village has a senior
population of over 420 residents, who live in 343 units,
in the five buildings that comprise its half-million-square-
foot campus, nestled in the southeastern part of the
province. Chinook Village was built on land that formerly
housed Hillcrest Christian College, a school that vacated
the premises and moved fromMedicine Hat, over twenty
years ago.
According to Vern Enslen, Chinook Village’s Operations
Manager, the local Evangelical Missionary Church owned
title to the land. “A few members of the church had a
vision for a seniors complex. So they formed a Board
and took over the property and developed a plan to have
independent-living seniors who are completely on their
own, as well as have some supported-living suites.
“The first units were built in 1991,” he continues. “The
only school property that was left at the time were two
dorms and those were both torn down, as well as some
administrative offices and classrooms and those are all
