The new care home, to be built in the field beside Mak Lodge, will have space for 26 residents. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

By Alison Sandstrom

New development

Council approves new care home in East Flat

Jun 4, 2020 | 5:57 PM

An East Flat personal care home is expanding.

On Monday night, Prince Albert city council approved a development permit for a second residential care facility to be built beside the existing Mak Lodge.

Owner Bahram Makari told paNOW the new building will offer the same services as its existing 20-unit facility. That will include help with feeding, bathing, dressing and taking medications. The facility will have slightly larger rooms. The new development will also include six suites where couples can live together, even if one partner needs more extensive care than the other.

The new care home will be built on the southern side of this East Flat Property. (Council Agenda Package/City of P.A.)

In total, the new personal care home will have space for 26 seniors.

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Makari hopes to start construction this summer and have the facility open by the end of 2020.

He also plans to add a special addition on the second floor — a suite where he and his wife will live. Makari said the two have spent so much time with residents at the existing facility since it opened in 2014, moving in was a natural move.

“After six years being with [the residents] we got so attached,” he explained. “Even when we go on holiday, we are in touch with them two or three times a day. We miss them so much.”

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