VITRINE Retirement

Supportive living accommodation · Claresholm, AB

Cottonwood Village

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4224 8 Street West, Box 2259, Claresholm T0L0T0 · View location

Vitrine score

60.4/ 100

Good

Ranked #218 out of 292 in Alberta

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Prices

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Photos

5 photos from the residence's website

Photos published by Cottonwood Village on its website (cottonwoodvillage.ca), retrieved 2026-10-11. These are the residence's own marketing photos and may not show current conditions. Is one of these yours? Ask us to remove it.

Cottonwood Village

From cottonwoodvillage.ca · the residence's own photo

The area

How this location compares on access and local conditions. These are facts about the surrounding area, not a rating of the home.

Nearby

Nearest hospital
2.4 km to Claresholm General Hospital

These are straight-line distances.

Area report: Air quality, summer heat, nearest major road and railway.

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Food safety inspections

Compared with homes Alberta Health Services inspects

0.8 infractions per routine inspection, on average

Fewer infractions than most homes Alberta Health Services inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home Alberta Health Services inspects, from fewest infractions per routine inspection (left) to most (right). Fewer infractions per routine inspection than 175 of the other 238 retirement homes Alberta Health Services inspects. Recent inspections count more.

3 routine inspections since 2023; latest July 9, 2026.

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Operator

Operated by Optima Living. One of 21 residences Optima Living operates.

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Listed by Optima Living at https://optimaliving.ca/communities/ (retrieved 2026-09-15).

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Licence and enforcement record

3 records

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Nearby residences

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Sources

Source: Alberta Continuing Care Accommodation Standards compliance reporting (2026-06); sites with a reported visit, retrieved 2026-10-08. Licence: Open Government Licence - Alberta.

Home size: Alberta Assisted Living and Social Services, Continuing Care Accommodation Standards compliance reporting, Units (read 2026-10-08).

Photos: the residence's own website, cottonwoodvillage.ca, retrieved 2026-10-11. © the residence or its photographer; shown with credit and a link; removed on request.

Air quality source: Global annual mean ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5), 2022, satellite-derived by the Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group (van Donkelaar et al.), obtained from the World Bank Data Catalog, "Air Pollution: Satellite-derived PM2.5 Concentration" (https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0066908).

Summer heat source: Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, and S-C. Kao. 2020. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1840

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: Statistics Canada, Road Network File, 2023.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: National Railway Network (NRWN), GeoBase Series.

Enforcement records licence: Open Government Licence - Alberta

Food safety inspections: Alberta Health Services, public inspection disclosure portal (retrieved 2026-09-27).