Vancouver Authority (VIHA) Residential Care and Assisted Living Capacity Initiative

Wherever possible, the new long-term care facilities were • High levels of competition led to very competitive built as communities of care where a full range of housing pricing; and care options—including independent housing, • Service levels are secured through performance- transitional care, convalescent care, assisted living and based agreements; complex care—are offered in one location. • All risks of construction cost escalation are the responsibility of the concessionaire; Project Objectives • The overall schedule was accelerated by more than three months ahead of the schedule set out in the VIHA set the following key objectives for the project: Request for Proposals; • Deliver the required long-term care beds and assisted • All of the long-term care and assisted living facilities living units by December 2008, were built as communities of care to provide a full • Develop communities of care where possible, range of housing and care options in one location; • Capture creativity and innovation through the and procurement process, and • Innovative services and design features were • Pilot the new Provincial Residential Care Services incorporated into each community of care. Operating Agreement. Public Sector Partners Partnership Highlights Project Overview • Ministry of Health Services Ten agreements were signed with nine different service • Island Health Authority providers to deliver long-term care and assisted living ’s seniors are living longer and leading units in the following areas on : Campbell more active lives. With a higher proportion of elderly Private Sector Partners River, Courtenay/Comox, Duncan, , Parksville, residents than in as a whole, the Vancouver Island , and Victoria. • The Ahmon Group Health Authority projected a significant increase in future • Baptist Housing Society of BC demand for long-term care services and recognized the Under the agreements, the concessionaires will design, • Capital Region Housing Corporation and Beckley need to create new capacity as well as renovate or replace construct, finance and operate the new long-term care Farm Lodge Society outdated facilities. facilities to the standards specified in the agreements. • Good Samaritan Canada Once a facility has met all design, legislative and regulatory VIHA issued the Residential Care and Assisted Living • Jones Development Corporation and inSite requirements, VIHA and BC Housing will be responsible Capacity Initiative as part of the Government of British • New Horizons Care Corporation for funding each facility at an agreed-upon amount for a Columbia’s commitment to develop 5,000 new long-term • Retirement Concepts 20-year operating term. care beds and assisted living units by 2008. • Sooke Elderly Citizens’ Housing Society • West Coast Native Health Care Society The $210 million initiative included several separate de- Expected Benefits velopments consisting of approximately 1,050 new units Partnerships BC’s Role (795 long-term care beds and 255 assisted living units) by Each of the agreements delivers value for money in that: 2008, with the flexibility for an additional 180 units (65 long- • Pricing for long-term care and assisted living units is a Partnerships BC acted as the procurement manager. term care beds and 115 assisted living units) by 2010. fixed cost per client, per day; www.partnershipsbc.ca