Retirement home · Pickering, ON

Chartwell Pickering City Centre Retirement Residence

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1801 Valley Farm Road, Pickering L1V0A5 · View location

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Vitrine score

93.8/ 100

Strong

Ranked #40 out of 780 in Ontario

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Photos

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Aerial view of a brick and white multi-storey building with a covered entrance and parking

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Open seating area with cream armchairs, tables and a reception counter

Photos published by Chartwell Pickering City Centre Retirement Residence on its website (chartwell.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.

The area

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Nearby

Nearest hospital: 5 km to Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering 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

1.4 infractions per routine inspection, on average

Fewer infractions than most homes Durham Region Health Department 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 23 of the other 29 retirement homes Durham Region Health Department inspects. Recent inspections count more.

6 routine inspections since 2024; latest August 13, 2026.

Inspection record on the Durham Region Health Department 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

13 records

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Routine inspection2026-01-28No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2025-03-24No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2024-12-31No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-12-31No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-07-04No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-05-312 issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-04-04No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2024-01-30No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2024-01-30No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2023-10-20No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2022-03-22No issues citedView the record
Routine inspection2021-09-20No issues citedView the record
Incident inspection (after a mandatory report)2020-11-271 issue citedView the record

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Nearby residences

Amica Pickering

1450 Pickering Parkway, Pickering, ON

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V!Va Pickering Retirement Community

1880 Glengrove Road, Pickering, ON

0.5 km away

Large

68.5/100Good

Ranked #310 out of 780 in Ontario

Amenida Seniors Community Pickering

1645 Pickering Parkway, Pickering, ON

0.7 km away

Medium

55.5/100Fair

Ranked #453 out of 780 in Ontario

Orchard Villa

1955 Valley Farm Road, Pickering, ON

0.9 km away

Medium

27.1/100Serious concerns

Ranked #674 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, chartwell.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: Durham Region Health Department, public inspection disclosure portal (retrieved 2026-10-14).