Dundas Manor

Dundas Manor Dundas Manor is a long-term care home located in rural Wi******er ON. Dundas Manor is a wonderful place to live & work.

Our residents are at the heart of all we do. Our new Commitment Statement is a testament to the care team and the shared focus we have in providing excellent resident centred care. We sincerely value the input of our residents, their families, our staff, our community partners and our stakeholders.

Stop by for a bite or a sweet treat and give back to the Dundas Manor at the same time... Thank you Guy Fuels! 💙💚
07/23/2025

Stop by for a bite or a sweet treat and give back to the Dundas Manor at the same time... Thank you Guy Fuels! 💙💚

Thank you to the WDMH Foundation - WDMHF for sponsoring an ice cream cart last week for our residents to enjoy! It was ...
07/18/2025

Thank you to the WDMH Foundation - WDMHF for sponsoring an ice cream cart last week for our residents to enjoy! It was delicious!! 💚💙

Happy 81st Birthday to Eddie W! His kind family donated these beautiful cupcakes 🧁 for residents and staff to celebrate...
07/18/2025

Happy 81st Birthday to Eddie W! His kind family donated these beautiful cupcakes 🧁 for residents and staff to celebrate his special day with him… HaPpY BiRtHdAy!! 💙💚

Please check out our latest update on the Dundas Manor Construction project at the link below.https://www.dundasmanor.ca...
07/15/2025

Please check out our latest update on the Dundas Manor Construction project at the link below.

https://www.dundasmanor.ca/uploads/NeighbourhoodNewsletter_Issue10.pdf

07/11/2025

This is to provide the facts about some recent misinformation shared on social media about our home.
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Hello,

As the Chief Executive Officer of Dundas Manor, I would like to share some information about the issue of hiring skilled health care professionals from other countries.

The number one priority at Dundas Manor is the care of our residents who call the Manor home. To do that effectively, we need trained, highly-skilled staff.

We would always want to recruit locally because this is the community we serve and it is much, much easier and less expensive to recruit people who live nearby. Just a week ago, we celebrated many of our staff who live locally and have worked at Dundas Manor for 5, 10, 20 and even 40 years.

For more than a year, we tried to recruit locally, and in Ontario, and in Canada. We had numerous job ads for full-time positions in newspapers, job websites, and on Facebook, Twitter/X, and Instagram. Through government programs, we were able to offer hiring bonuses of up to $25,000. In spite of all that, we often had no applicants respond to our postings for full-time nursing positions. As challenging as this is, many of the 600+ other long-term care homes in Ontario are experiencing worse staffing shortages and have for-profit staffing agencies providing them with personnel on a permanent basis. That is not the case at our long-term care home and we are grateful for the staff who have chosen to work and make a career at Dundas Manor.

In the new Dundas Manor, we will be caring for 56 more residents than we have now. The government will not allow us to open the new building unless we have a full complement of care staff that include PSWs, registered nurses, and registered practical nurses. So after trying to recruit locally for an extended period of time, we decided to hire trained, highly-skilled nurses from other countries. We do not get any government funding or subsidies for this. In fact, these recruitment costs are higher but we need skilled staff for the new Manor. These nurses from other countries are regular employees, work in the same unionized environment, and are paid the same as any other similar worker at Dundas Manor. There are no minority hiring quotas (or anything related to that) at Dundas Manor. All staff working at any Ontario long-term care facility have to have the qualifications specified in provincial government legislation.

Now that we have more full-time staff, some non-nursing staff will be working on a part-time or casual basis, as directed by the union agreement, which are the positions they were hired to fill.

The trained professionals from other countries are making considerable sacrifices to come to Wi******er. They are leaving their spouses and children to come to a very different climate and environment.

I would like to ask everyone to support these health care professionals so they will stay and support the care of all of our Dundas Manor residents.

Thank you.

Cholly Boland

The Cozy Corner dining room looks even cozier with new tablecloths and flowers from the home ~ Enjoy!! 💚💙
07/10/2025

The Cozy Corner dining room looks even cozier with new tablecloths and flowers from the home ~ Enjoy!! 💚💙

Beautiful berries and ice cream served this Canada Day afternoon. Lunch today was all things Canadian!! Poutines, pogos,...
07/01/2025

Beautiful berries and ice cream served this Canada Day afternoon.

Lunch today was all things Canadian!! Poutines, pogos, and maple syrup cheesecake!!

O Canada!🇨🇦

Hope you are enjoying your Canada Day with family and friends 💚💙

Update from our Strawberry 🍓 Social…Volunteer Nancy Farley Holmes won our beautiful Manor Quilt and here she is with her...
07/01/2025

Update from our Strawberry 🍓 Social…

Volunteer Nancy Farley Holmes won our beautiful Manor Quilt and here she is with her prize!

Team member Jen VanBridger won the local basket and Volunteer Anne Durant won our Mystery Prize 🩷

Total amount raised $1355.00 which will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society 💚💙

Some recent quilt donations to our home. 2 completed and 2 quilt tops that our talented quilters will get to work at. We...
07/01/2025

Some recent quilt donations to our home.

2 completed and 2 quilt tops that our talented quilters will get to work at.

We have the best community! 🫶

Each creative and unique with its’ own story.

Thank you!! 💚💙

Meet Sylvia!! 🩷Every morning she gets up and asks staff to position her by the front door. Then, as staff come in to wor...
07/01/2025

Meet Sylvia!! 🩷

Every morning she gets up and asks staff to position her by the front door.

Then, as staff come in to work for the day she welcomes them with a friendly and warm “Good Morning”

Does it get any better? Kindness matters. 💚💙

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day!! 💚💙
07/01/2025

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day!! 💚💙

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Dundas Manor is a wonderful place to live & work. Our residents are at the heart of all we do. Since 1978, our home has cared for residents in this community. There is a lot of love, laughter and life lessons shared in our cozy, country home. Our new Commitment Statement is a testament to the care team and the shared focus we have in providing excellent resident centred care. We sincerely value the input of our residents, their families, our staff, and our community partners.

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