New $38m Oakridge Villas Care Home in Kerikeri will be an ‘asset to the community’

A newly constructed, multimillion-dollar aged care facility in the Far North will be an “asset to the community”. That’s what Health Minister Shane Reti and Northland MP Grant McCallum reckoned when they visited Metlifecare’s Oakridge Villas Care Home in Kerikeri for the first time on Friday. The $38m, two-storey building in Cobham Rd contains 65 luxury care suites, 50 of which are a mix of rest home and hospital-level care, and 15 secure dementia suites.

There is also a range of resident amenity spaces such as a cafe, restaurant dining, lounges, a library, and support spaces such as a commercial kitchen and on-site laundry. About 520 jobs have been created throughout the various development phases..