€5 million ‘Roseville’ project ready and to open next June
Work on Roseville, the new home for the elderly in Attard, has now reached its final stages and will be inaugurated in June. The directors and management of Care Malta Group, led by its Chairman, Nazzareno Vassallo, yesterday celebrated the termination of the construction phase of Roseville. The project has now moved to its final stage of finishing and completion.
Roseville is owned by Care Malta Group, Malta’s largest and leading private care provider. The Group already operates six other similar facilities across Malta. Care Malta employs a team of over 500 highly dedicated and well trained personnel, focused on providing quality care services and facilities management.
Nazzareno Vassallo, said that Roseville is a very ambitious project: “Roseville is an early 20th century house and one of Malta’s few Art Nouveau country villas. This unique architectural gem with its floral sculpted window-surrounds and painted motifs recalls the Art Nouveau houses of Brussels, Antwerp and Central Europe. The project included major restoration work on the villa as well as the development of an extension to house the facilities for the elderly.”
Vassallo explained that Care Malta is investing €5 million in the project and it is expected that it will create up to 100 new jobs, between full-time and part-time positions. “We believe that there is a very good niche in the market for a quality home for the elderly in the area. Roseville is located in St Anthony Street, right opposite Villa Apap Bologna and has gardens adjacent to San Anton Palace. It is a perfect place for elderly people to retire and enjoy life, whilst having all the care and attention they need. That doesn’t mean that the rates for Roseville will be more expensive than what we already offer on the market. We’re doing our best to offer reasonable competitive rates.”
Natalie Briffa Farrugia, Operations Director at CareMalta added that full details on the facilities and capacity of Roseville will be announced at a later stage. “A specialised service that Roseville will offer will include fully equipped wards for elderly people who suffer from dementia. Roseville will in fact be the first home for the elderly to offer specialised treatment and care services related to dementia. We’re also planning to have a specialised clinic for residents and non-residents specifically catering for elderly people.”
Roseville is a scheduled building and Care Malta has invested significant resources and finances in its restoration. The interior of the house is also notable for its Egyptian-inspired decoration, with motifs based on the Egyptology style that was fashionable at the time. The house was built in two phases; the ground floor was built in 1912 by architect Alessandro Manara and the first floor was added in 1921 by architect Emanuele Borg in the same architectural grammar of the ground floor.
The Care Malta Group is Malta’s largest and leading private care provider. It was the first private company in Malta to invest in developing a privately owned purpose built facility for the elderly, in Mosta in 1993, and then later in Rabat in 1996. Care Malta was also the first private company to closely collaborate with Government in developing Malta’s first Public Private Partnership (PPP) in elderly care at Zejtun in 1994.
This PPP relationship continues to develop very successfully, so much so that Care Malta today operates two other Government owned facilities at Cospicua (opened in December 1999) and Mellieha (opened in March 2008). With the Mellieha Home, Care Malta Group managed to win the largest ever PPP contract yet awarded for a 30-year concession period to fund, build and manage a ‘state of the art’ home capable of accommodating 154 residents. The Group also operates the Prince of Wales Apartments in Sliema, Malta’s first Independent Living facility for the elderly.