Personal care home · St. John's, NL

Bishops Gardens

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190 Pennywell Road, St. John's A1C 2L6 · View location

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Vitrine score

86.3/ 100

Strong

Ranked #10 out of 86 in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Photos

9 photos from the residence's website

Front exterior with the covered entrance and parking area.

Exterior1 / 9

Side facade with large windows beside a paved walkway.

Lounge with armchairs, sofas and a wall-mounted television.

Dining room with set tables and pale wooden chairs.

Suite bedroom with a double bed and yellow armchair.

Twin-bed suite with matching bedside furniture.

Suite kitchenette with sink, cupboards and refrigerator.

Suite bathroom with a walk-in shower and grab bars.

Memory-care common area with a kitchen counter and seating.

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

The area

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Nearby

Nearest hospital: 0.5 km to St. Clare's Mercy 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 Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services inspects

0.5 infractions per routine inspection, on average

More infractions than most homes Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services inspects, from fewest infractions per routine inspection (left) to most (right). More infractions per routine inspection than 57 of the other 85 retirement homes Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services inspects. Recent inspections count more.

4 routine inspections since 2024; latest April 16, 2026.

Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services food premises inspection report

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Licence and enforcement record

6 records

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Fire and life safety inspection2026-02-24No deficiencies foundRecommended for LicensingView the record
Environmental health inspection2025-04-09No deficiencies foundRecommended for LicensingView the record
Fire and life safety inspection2025-02-05No deficiencies foundRecommended for LicensingView the record
Environmental health inspection2024-04-16No deficiencies foundRecommended for LicensingView the record
Fire and life safety inspection2024-01-15Minor deficiencies found; no immediate riskRecommended for Licensing (minor deficiencies)View the record
Environmental health inspection2023-04-20No deficiencies foundRecommended for LicensingView the record

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Sources

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Personal Care Home Contact List and Licensure Status (March 2026), retrieved 2026-10-03. Licence: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Photos: the residence's own website, bishopsgardens.com, retrieved 2026-10-10. © 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: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (gov.nl.ca); facts plus link

Food safety inspections: Newfoundland and Labrador Government Services, food premises inspection reports (retrieved 2026-10-03).