Located in Mount Pearl, Masonic Park has 40 long term care beds as well as over 200 self-contained one and two bedroom cottage and apartment units, covering 23 acres. Masonic Park officially opened in 1982. It is dedicated to maintaining, improving and expanding the quality of housing and health care for seniors.

Philosophy
The Masonic Park Nursing Home is dedicated to the total well-being of each senior citizen it serves.

The Masonic Park Nursing Home recognizes the rights and dignity of persons and demonstrates this in its tireless efforts to serve and preserve life, and to prepare for its termination when death is inevitable.

The Masonic Park Nursing Home strives to provide for each Resident the optimum of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual care at the least possible cost without prejudice to race, religion or method of financial support.

Admission to the Nursing Home is based on the need for the type of care provided, the environment most appropriate for the residents and the availability of accommodations.

These By-laws were adopted by the Board of Directors of Masonic Park on April 3, 1985.

Admission
All applications for admission are processed through a Single Entry System, coordinated by Health and Community Services, St. John's region.

An assessor from Health and Community Services will then visit the person requesting admission to a nursing home and complete an assessment for placement. Nursing home placement assessments for people who are currently hospitalized are completed by the Social Worker in the hospital. Upon medical discharge, these applicants may be referred to a transition bed at the Hoyles-Escasoni Complex transition unit or The Leonard Miller Centre, to await placement. This transfer referral happens if the applicant is not admitted to a nursing home directly from hospital.

Applicants can request three nursing homes of choice for placement.

All applications are processed through an Assessment and Placement Committee where acute care, community and nursing homes are represented. The applicant's level of care is determined and the applicant's name is appropriately placed on the waiting list.

When a vacancy occurs in a nursing home, a social worker on site contacts a Placement Coordinator at Health and Community Services. Applications are then forwarded to that nursing home, where an interdisciplinary review is completed. The social worker then contacts the appropriate applicant or family to offer placement.

Contact Information
Masonic Park Nursing Home
Mount Carson Avenue
Mt. Pearl, NL
A1N 3K5
(709) 368-6081