Residential care facility · Halifax, NS

Melville Gardens

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11 Ramsgate Lane, Halifax B3P 2S9 · View location

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Vitrine score

60.2/ 100

Good

Ranked #14 out of 46 in Nova Scotia

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Photos

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Melville Gardens building and entrance sign beside the parking area.

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Dining room with round tables and chairs beneath ceiling lights.

Dining tables beside windows and a dark tiled floor.

Garden lawn and curved path beside raised planting beds.

Photos published by Melville Gardens on its website (gemhealth.com), retrieved 2026-10-09. 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: 2.7 km to Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre

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 Nova Scotia Environment inspects

1.7 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 24 of the other 26 retirement homes Nova Scotia Environment inspects. Recent inspections count more.

4 inspections since 2025; latest August 27, 2025.

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Licence and enforcement record

12 records

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Semi-annual licensing inspection2025-07-03No requirementsView the record
Annual licensing inspection2025-04-074 requirements to correctView the record
Semi-annual licensing inspection2024-07-16No requirementsView the record
Annual licensing inspection2024-04-176 requirements to correctView the record
Semi-annual licensing inspection2023-07-101 requirement to correctView the record
Annual licensing inspection2023-04-244 requirements to correctView the record
Semi-annual licensing inspection2022-10-122 requirements to correctView the record
Annual licensing inspection2022-06-014 requirements to correctView the record
General licensing inspection2021-11-245 requirements to correctView the record
Annual licensing inspection2021-04-222 requirements to correctView the record
Annual licensing inspection2020-09-153 requirements to correctView the record
Semi-annual licensing inspection2019-12-041 requirement to correctView the record

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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).

Photos: the residence's own website, gemhealth.com, retrieved 2026-10-09. © 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).