KELOWNA, B.C. – Interior Health in British Columbia has announced it plans to build a new care community at the Cottonwoods Care Centre in Kelowna.
Interior Health will construct a new four-storey long-term care home on the current Cottonwoods Care Centre site located at 2255 Ethel St. When complete, Cottonwoods Care Centre will increase from 221 beds built in 1976, to 314 beds with state-of-the-art features and technology, a release said.
The care home will include social and recreational spaces found in a typical home-like environment, such as a living room, dining room, activity space and access to the outdoors, the release said, and will incorporate practice design features for people experiencing dementia. It will also include culturally sensitive design elements to serve a diverse population in the community.
The capital cost of the project is $186.87 million and will be shared by the province through Interior Health, and the Central Okanagan Regional Hospital District, the release added.
The project will move into the procurement phase with construction expected to start in 2026 and completion in 2029.
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