ParaMed welcomes Closing the Gap Healthcare Group
July 2, 2025
Please join us as we officially welcome Closing the Gap Healthcare to ParaMed, marking an exciting step forward in our mission to provide people with
Quality care is our top priority.
Caring for people is at the core of everything we do.
About us
Extendicare has been a trusted leader in seniors’ care for more than 50 years and provides compassionate, high-quality health services across Canada.
Founded in 1968 by Harold Livergant—a visionary dedicated to improving seniors’ care—Extendicare has grown from a single home in Ottawa to become one of Canada’s largest providers of long-term and home health care. Today, we operate through Extendicare, ParaMed, Extendicare Assist, and SGP Purchasing Network brands to ensure that seniors receive the care they need, wherever they call home.
With deep clinical and operational expertise, our highly trained teams are relentless in improving standards and delivering personalized, resident and patient-focused care. Whether in our long-term care homes or through our home health care services, we are committed to meeting the growing needs of Canada’s aging population.
Through SGP, we offer group purchasing and procurement services to third-party clients who support more than 148,000 seniors and others in need across Canada. Extendicare is the leading provider of long-term care and home health care, with 99 owned and operated long-term care homes, and through ParaMed, provides more than 11 million hours of home care each year to clients in their own communities.
Our mission, vision, and values guide everything we do:
Our Mission
Providing people with the care they need, wherever they call home.
Our Vision
Ensuring everyone in Canada has access to the care and support they need to live their best lives.
Our Values
- We embrace each person as the individual they are.
- We care for others as we would our own family.
- We collaborate because we achieve more together.
- We are relentless in our efforts to improve.
- We respect the resources entrusted to us.
What’s New
More than movement: a Physiotherapist’s experience in long-term care
May 30, 2025
When you think of physiotherapy, you might picture athletes recovering from injury or post-surgical patients regaining strength. But for one physiotherapist, the most transformative work happens in a quieter place: long-term care.
Brittany’s story: Walking to remember Gramma and to support Alzheimer’s awareness
May 26, 2025
Extendicare Maple View in Sault St. Marie, Ont., is among Extendicare long-term care homes that are holding local walks and events in support of the Alzheimer Society of Canada. “This Walk is very important to me, not only as a team member supporting our home’s residents, but because my grandmother had Alzheimer's and was a resident here at Maple View,” says Brittany.