Friends Nursing Home is a long-term care facility for individuals in need of medical, rehabilitative and hospice care.   We follow the principles that are basic to the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) concept of the dignity and intrinsic worth of each person.

    The primary objective of Friends Nursing Home is to provide an atmosphere and environment in which each resident receives consistent, high quality medical care and attains rehabilitation to their maximum potential.  The staff in each department works together as a team with a single goal, which is to provide the best personal resident care.

    Friends House Retirement Community became a reality in 1967, after more than twenty years of hope and planning by a small group of Quakers in the Washington area.  Initially, a 100-unit apartment program for low and moderate income persons was made possible by a long-term, low-interest loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Small studio and one-bedroom units with dining and public areas were constructed.

    Friends Nursing Home was begun in 1972 as a comprehensive care nursing facility.  In 1979, a new solar-heated, fifty-bed skilled nursing unit named Stabler Hall was added, which brought the total present capacity to eighty beds.  It is now completely equipped and staffed above required levels for long-term nursing care.