Recently, a patient’s family member wrote, “Words cannot express how grateful our family is to you for your kind, loving, compassionate care to our father and us in our time of need.”
Capital Caring Health is the region’s largest nonprofit hospice and advanced illness care provider. Serving Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland for nearly 50 years, they have ensured critical care for local families regardless of their ability to pay.
With Capital Caring Health’s interdisciplinary approach, support for hospice and palliative care extends beyond the patient, providing family members care and guidance from their social workers and certified counselors. Focusing on patients and their families, wherever they are in their advanced illness journey, is the organization’s sole mission.
Specialized resources are also available to veterans and those facing advanced cardiac disease, end-stage lung disease and dementia. Additionally, Capital Caring Health is the only provider of inpatient hospice care in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia with two state-of-the-art centers. Each inpatient unit offers 24/7 care in a home-like environment.
Thanks to the generous support of the community, Capital Caring Health provides more than $3 million in hospice care and grief support annually at no cost to those in need.