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Residential care facility · Antigonish, NS

Highland Crest Residential Care Facility

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44 Hillcrest Street, Antigonish B2G 1Z3 · View location

Vitrine score

40.5/ 100

Fair

Ranked #34 out of 46 in Nova Scotia

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Prices

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Photos

Photo published by Highland Crest Residential Care Facility on its website (high-crest.com), retrieved 2026-10-11. This is the residence's own marketing photo and may not show current conditions. Is it yours? Ask us to remove it.

Highland Crest Residential Care Facility

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The area

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Nearby

Nearest hospital
1.4 km to St. Martha's Regional Hospital

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

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Food safety inspections

Compared with homes Nova Scotia Environment inspects

0.6 infractions per inspection, on average

More infractions than most homes Nova Scotia Environment inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home Nova Scotia Environment inspects, from fewest infractions per inspection (left) to most (right). More infractions per inspection than 20 of the other 26 retirement homes Nova Scotia Environment inspects. Recent inspections count more.

5 inspections since 2024; latest April 23, 2026.

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Licence and enforcement record

7 records

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  • Annual licensing inspection2025-07-175 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2024-07-096 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2023-07-256 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2022-07-136 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2021-07-146 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2020-07-224 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2019-07-164 requirements to correctView the record

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Nearby residences

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Sources

Source: Nova Scotia Long-term Care and Residential Care Facilities, retrieved 2026-10-08. Licence: Nova Scotia Open Data Licence.

Home size: Nova Scotia Department of Seniors and Long-term Care, Long-term Care and Residential Care Facilities open data, Residential Care Facilities (RCF) No.of Beds (read 2026-10-08).

Photo: the residence's own website, high-crest.com, 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: Province of Nova Scotia (novascotia.ca); facts plus link

Food safety inspections: Nova Scotia Environment, food establishment inspection reports (retrieved 2026-10-04).