Private company

Extendicare

Logo: extendicare.com⁴

Private for-profit corporation that operates LTC and retirement facilities in Canada

Extendicare Inc. is a Canadian for-profit long-term care (LTC) provider that offers housing, care and related services to seniors. It operates over 100 care facilities and is based in Markham, Ontario. The company operates retirement residences and long-term care facilities under the Extendicare, Esprit Lifestyle and ParaMed brands, with 23,000 employees.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1968Founded¹

Industryretirement home¹
HeadquartersMarkham¹
Websitewww.extendicare.com
Listed onToronto Stock Exchange¹
Legal formBusiness corporations (which includes professional corporations)³
LEI5493001DQ0G74DE4CY39³
StatusActive³
LEI statusIssued and current³
Registered address400, 3000 STEELES AVENUE EAST, L3R 4T9 Markham, Canada³
Registered withCorporations Canada, 774824-8³

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Corporate structure

Extendicare sits at the top of its group. 7 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Extendicare Markham, Ontario, Canada
- ParaMed Inc. Subsidiary · 100% · Markham, Ontario, Canada
- EXTENDICARE (CANADA) INC. Subsidiary · Markham, Ontario, Canada
  - Axium Extendicare LTC LP Subsidiary · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Harvest Retirement Community Inc. Subsidiary · Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Riverbend Crossing Retirement Community Inc. Subsidiary · Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Stonebridge Crossing Retirement Community Inc. Subsidiary · Markham, Ontario, Canada

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Products and brands

Segments and subsidiaries

According to its 2020 Annual Report, the company earned a total of CA$1,155.3 million in revenue in 2020. Its segments include long-term care—which generated a revenue of CA$715.6 million, retirement living, home health care, "contract services, consulting and group purchasing", and corporate activities, among others.

In Canada, the company has significant subsidiaries, including Extendicare Inc., ParaMed Inc., Harvest Retirement Community Inc., Stonebridge Crossing Retirement Community Inc., Empire Crossing Retirement Community Inc.,

Yorkton Crossing Retirement Community Inc., West Park Crossing Retirement Community Inc., Bolton Mills Retirement Community Inc., Douglas Crossing Retirement Community Inc., Lynde Creek Manor Retirement Community Inc.,

9994165 Canada Inc., Riverbend Crossing Retirement Community Inc., and Cedar Crossing Retirement Community Inc. It also has a significant subsidiary in Bermuda, the Laurier Indemnity Company, Ltd.

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By 2020, most of Extendicare's LTC and retirement facilities were in two provinces – about 77% in Ontario and 11% in Alberta. In 2020, Extendicare owned and operated 58 LTC facilities, and Esprit Lifestyle Communities owned and operated 11 retirement living facilities. Through the Extendicare Assist division, the company also provided 52 facilities with contract services. The Purchasing Partner Network division—SGP—contracts purchases of "food, capital equipment, furnishings, cleaning and nursing supplies, and office products".

Financial support to LTC facilities

The Ontario Ministry of LTC provided COVID funding of CA$398.0 million, "which included $268.0 million in funding for COVID prevention and containment efforts". According to their 2020 annual report, they received CA$6.6 million in the spring of 2021 for the FY 2020.

According to a Toronto Star analysis of Extendicare's 2020 financial statements, in the first 3 quarters ending in September 2020, this for-profit company paid out nearly CA$29 million to shareholders in dividends at the same time that ParaMed received CA$82.2 million in federal wage subsidies through the program for front-line workers, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). The Star investigation included the three major for-profit LTC providers, Sienna Senior Living, Chartwell Retirement Residences, as well as Extendicare. The companies said that the CEWS grants went directly to their frontline workers and were not to pay dividends.

From Wikipedia’s article on Extendicare, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁵

Controversies and legal

Class-action lawsuits and regulatory actions

There have been several COVID-related lawsuits filed against Extendicare facilities.

These lawsuits include an October 2020 CA$600,000 class action lawsuit with multiple defendants against multiple homes and levels of government, a second CA$210 class action lawsuit alleging "gross negligence" filed in October 2020, regarding one of Extendicare's LTC facilities—later amended to include claims against 35 Extendicare's operations.

In November 2020, the Ontario government, under Premier Doug Ford passed Bill 218, Supporting Ontario's Recovery Act—retroactive to March 17, 2020—which provides some liability protections to individuals, corporations, or other entities, including LTC corporations, against COVID-19-related legal claims that limit claimants ability to win a lawsuit "except in certain circumstances". Claimants must prove that an individual, corporation, or other entity acted in "gross negligence", not in a "good faith" or "honest" effort to comply with public health guidance and laws relating to COVID-19.