A History of Caring
Uniquely positioned as the premier provider of long-term care in Washington, D.C., The Washington Home was founded in 1888 as a non-profit charitable institution, to provide professional medical and nursing care to people with chronic disease or disability, regardless of sex, creed, race or national origin.

Our Values
After 119 years, The Washington Home continues to uphold its founding values, but has also grown to expand its mission to provide quality healthcare and end-of-life services with compassion and innovation to foster dignity and independence in those we serve. This growth has enabled The Washington Home to provide a continuum of care and reservoir of expertise.

Our doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and administrators are certified in their areas of specialty and are widely recognized here at The Washington Home and in their professions for the high quality of care, service and expertise that they bring to the organization.

While we take pride in our long-term care services that have benefited the community for more than a century, we are equally proud of our excellent rehabilitation services and our care of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia patients today. We are also able to provide hospice services to patients in our long-term care unit, a continuum of care important to many residents and their families.

Our Home
Beyond our medical expertise, we pay important attention to the fact that The Washington Home is home for our residents, and a temporary home for our rehabilitation patients. Our staff is friendly, warm and caring. The furnishings and grounds reflect the high quality and attention to detail that is important to the feeling of well-being of our residents and their families. Set on several acres, our landscaping offers residents the pleasure of fragrant flowers, fountains and comfortable benches, chairs and tables.

Volunteers of all ages are invaluable to The Washington Home. Our volunteers contribute more than 40,000 hours of service each year. Their extra efforts touch our residents in many ways, and their service is vital to the daily life here.

Our Organization
Our organization, The Washington Home, located in Northwest Washington, D.C., has now become known as The Washington Home and Community Hospices, providing hospice services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

The cornerstone of Community Hospices was in the Hospice of Washington, one of the nation’s first hospices, which was founded in 1978. The Washington Home expanded its hospice services in 2001 when it acquired the hospice program assets of MedStar Health Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. (VNA).

This new entity not only provides hospice services and acute symptom management to patients in The Washington Home's13-bed Hospice Inpatient Unit, but also provides hospice care in patient’s homes, other nursing homes and long-term care facilities.   Community Hospices serves patients in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

For more information about our hospice services, visit our website at communityhospices.org

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