VITRINE Retirement

Residential care facility · South Berwick, NS

New Vision Special Care Homes

4507 Highway 1, South Berwick B0P 1E0 · View location

Vitrine score

56.3/ 100

Fair

Ranked #19 out of 46 in Nova Scotia

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The area

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Nearby

Nearest hospital
1.1 km to Western Kings Memorial Health 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

0.1 infractions per inspection, on average

About typical for 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). Fewer infractions per inspection than 15 of the other 26 retirement homes Nova Scotia Environment inspects. Recent inspections count more.

5 inspections since 2023; latest November 18, 2025.

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Licence and enforcement record

10 records

These records are published on the official public regulator register. Vitrine lists them with a link to each source document and does not add findings of its own.

  • Annual licensing inspection2025-08-184 requirements to correctView the record
  • Semi-annual licensing inspection2024-11-26No requirementsView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2024-08-276 requirements to correctView the record
  • Semi-annual licensing inspection2024-04-181 requirement to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2023-08-239 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2022-08-113 requirements to correctView the record
  • Semi-annual licensing inspection2021-11-293 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2021-08-183 requirements to correctView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2020-09-24No requirementsView the record
  • Annual licensing inspection2019-08-205 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).

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).