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Retirement home · Kitchener, ON

Chartwell Bankside Retirement Residence

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71 Bankside Drive, Kitchener N2N3L1 · View location

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Vitrine score

48.6/ 100

Fair

Ranked #526 out of 780 in Ontario

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Prices

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Photos

4 photos from the residence's website
Four-storey building with a covered entrance, trees and flower bedsExterior1 / 4Room with two sofas, bookcases, a fireplace and patterned carpetDining room with set tables, patterned chairs and large windowsDeck with tables, chairs, umbrellas and flower planters

Photos published by Chartwell Bankside Retirement Residence on its website (comfortofliving.com), 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.

Chartwell Bankside Retirement Residence

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The area

How this location compares on access and local conditions. These are facts about the surrounding area, not a rating of the home.

Nearby

Nearest hospital
2.4 km to St. Mary's General 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

1.1 infractions per routine inspection, on average

About typical for homes Region of Waterloo Public Health inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home in this health unit, from fewest infractions per routine inspection (left) to most (right). Fewer infractions per routine inspection than 15 of the other 28 retirement homes Region of Waterloo Public Health inspects. Recent inspections count more.

6 routine inspections since 2024; latest June 5, 2026.

Inspection record on the Region of Waterloo Public Health portal

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Operator

Operated by Chartwell Retirement Residences. One of 137 residences Chartwell Retirement Residences operates.

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Listed by Chartwell Retirement Residences at https://chartwell.com/find-a-residence (retrieved 2026-09-15).

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Licence and enforcement record

11 records

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Nearby residences

Highland Place

20 Fieldgate Street, Kitchener, ON

0.8 km away

Medium

30.9/100Serious concerns

Ranked #664 out of 780 in Ontario

Lanark Village

44 Lanark Crescent, Kitchener, ON

0.9 km away

Large

80.4/100Strong

Ranked #174 out of 780 in Ontario

Chartwell Westmount Retirement Residence

190 David Bergey Drive, Kitchener, ON

2.9 km away

Large

42.7/100Fair

Ranked #585 out of 780 in Ontario

Beechwood Manor

305 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON

3.0 km away

Medium

24/100Serious concerns

Ranked #682 out of 780 in Ontario

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, comfortofliving.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: RHRA Public Register - non-commercial use only (verified 2026-09-16)

Food safety inspections: Region of Waterloo Public Health, public inspection disclosure portal (retrieved 2026-09-25).