WASHINGTON (AP) - Sidwell Friends School has announced its plans to purchase an assisted living facility located near its campus in the District of Columbia’s northwest area.
On Tuesday, the Washington Home and Community Hospices said it has decided to sell its Upton Street facility to the private school. The home has been providing residential care services for 127 years and also has an outpatient hospice service.
In a letter to parents, school officials say that purchasing the 5.7 acre property will allow Sidwell to consolidate onto a single campus in the District.
The Sidwell Friends Lower School campus is located in Bethesda, Maryland.
“The resulting continuity and strengthened sense of community will improve the Sidwell Friends experience for generations to come,” Head of school Bryan Garman and board of trustees clerk Margaret Plank wrote in the letter. “The acquisition of The Washington Home site will also allow the School to create new shared community spaces for our Middle and Upper School students, and attend to a long-overdue renovation of the Upper School building.”
The Sidwell leaders said that purchase will be completed through philanthropy, and the new lower school in the District is scheduled to open in the fall of 2019.
CEO of the Washington Home Tim Cox said because the sale won’t close until the end of 2016, there will be time to “develop individual transition plans” for residents and staff.
“There are no changes to our long-term residential care and inpatient hospice services today, or in the near future, at our Upton Street location,” Cox said in an open letter on the home’s website.
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