The Jewish Home of San Francisco is a not-for-profit, licensed skilled nursing facility and residential community specializing in programs, services, and care for older adults.

From our modest beginnings in 1871 as a residential center for twelve seniors, the Jewish Home has grown to a nine-acre comprehensive senior care center with five distinct buildings, serving more than 420 residents with diverse care needs, and providing rehabilitation services to numerous others seeking short-term care stays.

For 137 years, the Jewish Home has ensured that Bay Area elderly have always had a place to call home.

Place

Residents and program participants – and their families and friends – choose the Jewish Home because of the high quality and comprehensive scope of services and programs that have made it a national model for geriatric care.

• Specialized Care Units, including:
  • Acute Psychiatric Services for in-house residents, as well as the general community. Patients benefit from one-to-one interaction with the in-house geriatric psychiatrist, psychiatric nurses, and licensed social workers
  • Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Care Services
  • Short-Term Rehabilitation Services for post-hospital and rehabilitation care. Transitional care services and medication reconciliation ensure clinical management between various levels of care
• Specialized Clinics, including:
  

  Audiology	Gynecology	Podiatry
  Cardiology	Neurology	Psychiatry
  Dental	Ophthalmology	Radiology
  Dermatology	Optometry	Urology

• Rehabilitation Center and Physical Medicine for personalized physical, occupational, and speech therapies / Fitness Center
• Integrative Medicine / Acupuncture / Massage Therapy / Healing Touch
• Research programs to improve the care of older, frailer adults
• Place of worship
• Kol Haneshama program provides trained spiritual care partners (volunteer companions) to residents who are coping with issues around death and dying
• Kosher kitchen
• Housekeeping and maintenance services
• Recreational program of daily activities and evening entertainment seven days a week, as well as special outings, theater shows, and art education
• Specialized intensive recreation therapy by referral
• Comprehensive Russian services program to meet the needs of Russian-speaking residents
• Creative expression through residential art and ceramics programs, writing, and performing
• Café and boutique
  

People

From Generation to Generation

• A growing number of residents are third generation – whose parents or family members once received services at the Jewish Home
• Today, the Jewish Home serves individuals who are frailer and older, with more complex and diverse needs than ever before

Residents and Clients

• More than 420 residents, whose average age is 87
• Three-to-one ratio of women to men
• Over 80% of residents use wheelchairs or walkers

Staff and Volunteers

• More than 700 employees, ranging from nurses to facilities maintenance staff
• Over 60% of staff provide direct medical and healthcare services
• Full-time medical director / 24-hour physician on call / Physician’s assistant / Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner  
• Nurse practitioners
• Nursing staff – ranging from chief nursing executive, to psychiatric and registered nurses,  to certified nursing assistants
• Operating from the Home’s licensed pharmacy, on-site pharmacists provide clinical pharmacy services to ensure residents receive optimal drug therapy
• Full-time rabbi works with diverse volunteers and staff to make traditions and rituals come alive
• Certified dietary manager supervises more than 500,000 meals served annually; Food and Nutritional Services staff are available to discuss residents’ special dietary needs
• Professional Social Services staff attend to the psychosocial needs of residents and families
• Almost 600 active volunteers contribute approximately 30,000 hours annually, varying from visiting with residents to fundraising

Caring & Sharing: In Good Company

"When we visit our mother at the Home, we are always appreciative, not just for the care she receives, but also for the unconditional respect given her. We leave our visits feeling grateful and knowing she is safe. This contribution is our way of saying thanks to the Jewish Home. It is part of abiding by God’s commandment to ‘honor thy mother and thy father.’"

Debra Reynolds and Steven Hammerschlag
Family of Ilse Hammerschlag, Jewish Home resident

Our focus is on helping residents live each day to its fullest, in a secure, dignified environment. As a not-for-profit organization, the Jewish Home relies on the community – family and friends of residents, as well as others in the Bay Area – to maintain these high standards. Historically, thousands have rallied to support the Home. During the 2006/2007 fiscal year:

• 3,285 people donated to the Home
• Gifts ranged from $2 and up. Every gift counts!
• Donors contributed to the Home for a variety of purposes, including:
  • Building a new 55,000 square-foot center
  • Modernizing the pharmacy
  • Underwriting arts programs
  • Buying a new bed for a resident
  • Sponsoring the comedy clinic
  • Purchasing a new wheelchair
  • Supporting the operating fund so that those with limited resources receive the care they need