VITRINE Retirement

Residential care facility · New Glasgow, NS

High-Crest New Glasgow

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253 Forbes Street, New Glasgow B2H 4P5 · View location

Vitrine score

41.2/ 100

Fair

Ranked #32 out of 46 in Nova Scotia

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Prices

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Photos

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Photos published by High-Crest New Glasgow on its website (high-crest.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.

High-Crest New Glasgow

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The area

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Nearby

Nearest hospital
1.4 km to Aberdeen Hospital - New Glasgow

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

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Food safety inspections

Not yet rated for food safety: only 1 inspection on record with Nova Scotia Environment. In the Vitrine score, the food-safety part counts that one inspection only in part until more inspections are on record.

1 inspection, on October 16, 2025.

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Licence and enforcement record

8 records

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  • Annual licensing inspection2025-08-146 requirements to correctView the record
  • Semi-annual licensing inspection2024-11-191 requirement to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2024-08-155 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2023-08-2311 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2022-08-318 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2021-08-115 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2020-09-305 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2019-08-3012 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).

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

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