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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:
CAPITAL CARING HEALTH
Capital Caring Health is one of the largest nonprofit providers
of elder health, advanced illness, hospice, and at-home care
services for the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. area.
Established in 1977, it holds the distinction To connect with people and families who
as one of the first hospices in the country, could benefit from their services, the Capital
including the first inpatient hospice center Caring Health patient advocate team needs
in the nation. The organization’s mission is easy access to high-quality educational
to provide hospice and advanced illness collateral, such as brochures and fact sheets,
care of the highest quality, regardless of to leave with physicians, providers, patients,
families’ ability to pay. Capital Caring Health and their family members.
serves about 7,000 patients a year across
the mid-Atlantic region, including
older adults as well as pediatric
patients.
Hospice services are provided by
a physician-led interdisciplinary
team that also includes nurses,
social workers, chaplains, grief
counselors, and specially trained
volunteers. Having a seriously ill
loved one is a strain on the
whole family, and Capital
Caring Health provides
grief support services to
any community
member, available for
one year after the loss.
