Chatswood Retirement Village
Opawa, ChristchurchCanterbury
In short
- Offers rest home and hospital care.
- A standard room costs at most $1,556.80 a week here, the Ministry of Health's price cap (maximum contribution).
- No rooms are listed as free right now.
- Care offered
- Rest home, Hospital
- Rooms free
- None listedupdated 15 October 2026, 8:28am
- Certificate
- 48 monthsends 1 June 2030
- Certified beds
- 100
- Standard room cap
- $1,556.80a week, from 1 July 2026
- Premium rooms
- Not checkedmost homes do not publish it
Care offered
- Rest home
- Hospital
Vacancies
- Standard rooms
- None listed
- Care suites (under an occupation right agreement)
- Free now
Updated 15 October 2026, 8:28am by the home on Eldernet. Call to confirm before you visit.
What it costs
Standard room: capped at $1,556.80 a week in Christchurch City from 1 July 2026 (the Ministry of Health's maximum contribution), source.
We matched this home to Christchurch City by its town, Christchurch. Health New Zealand tells each home the rate that applies to it, so ask the home to confirm.
The cap is what a standard room costs, whether you pay yourself or the Residential Care Subsidy pays, and it is the same for rest home, hospital and dementia care. Premium rooms and care suites cost more, and most homes do not publish those extra charges, so ask for them in writing. How care home prices work.
Some people qualify for the Residential Care Subsidy (government help with the cost of long-term care), which is means-tested and assessed by Work and Income. Who qualifies.
Certification and audits
- Certification period
- 48 months
- Certificate ends
- 1 June 2030
- Certified beds
- 100
The Ministry grants 48 months for a clean record.
Services certified
- Rest home care
- Geriatric (hospital level)
- Medical (hospital level)
- Auditor
- BSI Group New Zealand Ltd
- Certified as
- Chatswood Lifecare Limited - Chatswood Retirement Village, 60 Hawford Road Opawa Christchurch 8023
Audit summaries
- Latest audit summary, March 2026 PDF, 217 KB
- Audit summary, December 2024 PDF, 153 KB
- Audit summary, September 2023 PDF, 152 KB
- Audit summary, March 2023 PDF, 216 KB
3 older summaries are on the Ministry page.
Source: the Ministry of Health page for this home, read 15 and 16 October 2026.
Retirement villages nearby
- Chatswood Retirement Village on site or next door
Where this comes from
- Address
- 60 Hawford Road, Opawa, Christchurch
- Phone
- (03) 332 7323
- Region
- Canterbury
- Source: Eldernet listing (chatswood-retirement-village), read 15 and 16 October 2026 (listing, care levels, vacancies)
- Source: Ministry of Health certification page, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (certificate, beds, audits)
- Source: Ministry of Health maximum contribution notice, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (standard room cap)
Confidence: high for care levels and contact details, which the home lists itself, and for certification, which is the Ministry's own record. Vacancies change daily.
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