Retirement home · Hamilton, ON

Abington Court Retirement Residence

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1500 Main Street East, Hamilton L8K1E1 · View location

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Vitrine score

25/ 100

Serious concerns

Ranked #680 out of 780 in Ontario

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Prices

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Photos

11 photos from the residence's website

Four-storey residence with dormer windows and trees beside the entrance

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Bedroom with a bed, armchair, dining table and window

Bedroom with a bed, armchair and refrigerator beside the entrance

Unfurnished room with a closet, wood flooring and a refrigerator

Unfurnished room with wood flooring, a window and a kitchenette

Unfurnished rooms with wood flooring, a chair and a refrigerator

Courtyard with a circular planter, flowering shrubs and paved paths

Aerial view of a landscaped courtyard with a circular planter and paved paths

Paved garden path bordered by shrubs leading to a covered patio

Covered patio surrounded by shrubs and raised garden beds

Activity room with chairs, exercise equipment and large windows

Photos published by Abington Court Retirement Residence on its website (abingtoncourt.ca), retrieved 2026-10-11. 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: 2.6 km to Hamilton Health Sciences - St. Peter's 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 this health unit inspects

3.0 infractions per routine inspection, on average

More infractions than most homes Hamilton Public Health Services inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home in this health unit, from fewest infractions per routine inspection (left) to most (right). More infractions per routine inspection than 28 of the other 31 retirement homes Hamilton Public Health Services inspects. Recent inspections count more.

14 routine inspections since 2022; latest August 21, 2026.

Inspection record on the Hamilton Public Health Services portal

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Licence and enforcement record

17 records

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Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2026-06-22No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2026-06-03No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2025-10-02No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2025-03-314 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2025-01-232 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-12-024 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-10-16No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2024-09-1912 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-09-197 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-08-024 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-03-07No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-02-22No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2023-10-045 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2023-06-28No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2023-01-182 issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2022-09-163 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2022-06-02No issues citedView the record

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Nearby residences

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Small

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Grandview Retirement Living

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Residence On Aikman

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These are straight-line distances.

Sources

Source: Ontario MOHSERLO, retrieved 2026-09-14. Licence: Open Government Licence - Ontario.

Home size: Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority public register, Number of Suites and Resident Capacity (read 2026-09-23).

Photos: the residence's own website, abingtoncourt.ca, 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: RHRA Public Register - non-commercial use only (verified 2026-09-16)

Food safety inspections: Hamilton Public Health Services, public inspection disclosure portal (retrieved 2026-10-14).