Abraham & Laura Lisner Home For Aged Women

The mission of the Home is to provide extraordinary health and life care services to low and modest income seniors of the District of Columbia, empowering them to live their lives to the fullest. We embrace the vision of our founders by striving to be a champion for poor seniors of DC, working to alleviate their hardships where we can and always doing so in a manner which recognizes their self-worth and independence. The Home remains unique in the Washington DC elder care community in that it most often becomes a permanent home for its residents.

The first strategy is to maintain the Home’s commitment to provide excellent care for our residents by approaching resident care on a full-spectrum basis and delivering that care in a manner which affirms and fosters each resident’s capabilities and individuality. The Home continues to explore “cutting edge” approaches to providing care for seniors keeping in mind the sensitivity to the changing demographics and needs of elders in the community. The second strategy is to secure the Home’s financial future through private donations, grants from foundations and corporations, sponsorships, corporate partnerships and entrepreneurial opportunities.

The Home continues to provide excellent care to the residents and has been recognized nationally and locally for its delivery of care. In 2017 and 2018 the Home again received a 5-star rating from the Federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the highest attainable. Additionally, the Home was recognized as one of the best nursing homes in the country for 2018-2019 and the one of the best for short-stay care by US News and world Report. Several staff members have been selected by their peers to represent their respective long term care associations. The DC Health Care Association (DCHCA) chose one of the Home’s Social Workers to serve as the DC State representative to the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). Our Director of Nursing is now President of the DC Directors of Nursing chapter of the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administrators (NADONA). The Home’s Administrator continues her services on the DCHCA Board as Chair of the Legislative Committee and our CFO continues his participation with the DCHCA Finance Committee and DC Department of Health Care Finance.

The Home continues to provide excellent care to the residents and has been recognized nationally and locally for its delivery of care. During the past 12 months, the Home opened an onsite ophthalmological clinic to serve the visual needs of our residents; launched an improved, easier to navigate website; brought its entire food and nutrition program in-house, with a projected savings of $150,000 in operational costs over the year; brought the engineering department in-house with a projected savings of $130,000 in operational costs over the year; replaced major kitchen equipment through grant funding; hosted another successful spring fundraiser; received excellent DC survey results for our community residential facility, assisted living residence, and nursing facility; implemented a fully electronic medical records system; and, introduced a sustainer giving program. Our Resident Art Program continues to win praise from the community and was chosen to mount a month-long exhibit of resident artwork in February 2018 at The Arts Club of Washington.

Over the next three years, the Home will be concentrating on finalizing our plans for the future of the Home and making those plans a reality. There are several permutations for maximizing our ability to serve increasing numbers of elder citizens in DC; we are therefore envisioning combinations of levels and types of elder care that cover a wide range of needs.