About Us
Washington Care Center is a team of people sharing the commitment to understand and help those unable to care for themselves and their family and friends. For more than forty years we've been listening to, caring for and comforting our neighbors in the Rainier Valley.
Mission:
Washington Care Center is a multicultural community committed to enhancing the lives of our residents needing long-term care or short-term rehabilitation by consistently demonstrating high standards of practice in a therapeutic homelike environment. We aim to serve as a community resource and asset by providing jobs, training, student-mentoring and exceptional services.
Vision:
- To be a premier provider of both short-term rehabilitative services and long-term care in the Pacific Northwest and a center of excellence among all skilled nursing facilities.
- To maintain an exceptional community reputation through a highly skilled and professional staff offering total comprehensive care.
- To cost effectively return each individual to the most productive and independent life possible.
- To partner with all other appropriate community resources which enhance our ability to achieve our mission.
Our Core Values:
We are guided by the principles and values that embrace continual performance improvement. Care that is compassionate and professional, respectful of individuals and their rights is delivered by our health care professionals who creatively offer full support and teamwork at each level of our organization.
Respect: We affirm the dignity and autonomy and worth of the whole person.
Compassion: We create a caring environment that supports fulfillment, companionship and empathy, recognizing that human suffering is relieved when issues of hopelessness, loneliness and boredom are addressed.
Cooperation: We are aware that working together with a common purpose results in mutual benefits for our employees and positive outcomes for those we serve.
Wisdom: We are guided by the knowledge and ethical foundation of our professions, utilizing good judgment, sound action, creativity and experience to guide our caring practices.
History:
Washington Care Center first opened in 1959 and from the very beginning through today has been a privately owned nursing home. Throughout our history services have reflected the needs of our community. We opened as a nursing home later added assisted living housing and in 2005 replaced the assisted living with a new 49-bed subacute unit and remodeled the existing nursing home.
The first of our family owners was Don Watkins who sold the facility to Carolyn and Leo Pavlov. The Pavlov's formed the company that currently operates Washington Center, C&L Concerns. Dan and Dee Humphrey are the current owners of C&L Concerns. Washington Center has passed into the hands of our new family, SouthEast Effective Development (SEED), a community-based not-for-profit development corporation that invests in the future of Southeast Seattle. Through its history SEED has facilitated social, economic, housing and cultural programs within the community.
SEED
Founded in 1975, SEED works to strengthen and revitalize the neighborhoods and business districts of Southeast Seattle. The organization is made up of fourteen individuals living and working in our community. Under their direction SEED has been developing community-change strategies to improve Southeast Seattle using four major program components: Economic Development, Housing, Arts and Capital Improvements. You can find out more about SEED at www.seedseattle.org.
The SEED Mission:
- To revitalize the Rainier Valley by creating effective partnerships and new working relationships among public and private sectors and the community.
- To serve as a strong entrepreneur in housing and economic development.
- To strive for housing preservation, business retention, commercial redevelopment and revitalization, cultural enhancement and neighborhoods.