142 Business View - August 2015
County of Simcoe Senior Services
An innovative county stays ahead of the curve in providing senior services
For 120 years, the County of Simcoe, Ontario has
been in the business of providing services for its se-
nior citizens. Jane Sinclair is Simcoe County’s General
Manager of Health and Emergency Services, charged
with overseeing the county’s portfolio of senior ser-
vice properties and operations. She is effusive in her
praise for the County’s long term commitment to its
senior population: “This County has been extremely
supportive of senior services for many, many years,”
she says.
For example, while all municipalities in the province
are required to own and operate one long-term care
home, today, the County owns and operates four long-
term care homes with a total of 541 care beds, in ad-
dition to a diverse range of housing and other support
services for seniors.
The County’s portfolio of long-term care residences
and seniors housing options include the following fa-
cilities:
Sunset Manor opened as a residential facility in 1969,
on 8.56 acres of land in the town of Collingwood. It
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