Care. Compassion. Excellence.

For 138 years the Jewish Home of San Francisco has served the Bay Area’s elderly, delivering excellence and compassionate care.

Regardless of residents' financial resources, the Jewish Home provides unparalleled medical care and a high quality of life in an environment that promotes dignity.

The Jewish Home Difference

• An in-house team of five physicians are at the Home six days a week, attending to residents and meeting individual needs for medical care. Older adults in other care facilities must travel to see a doctor, and it is likely that they will be able to see a physician only about once a month.
• Four of the Home’s on-site physicians are fellowship-trained geriatricians. While all doctors attempt to free patients from the ravages of disease, geriatricians are trained differently in that they also support elderly patients remaining actively engaged in the world.
• The Jewish Home is blessed with a large core staff of long-term caregivers. Many facilities have a high employee-turnover rate – some as high as 50 percent or more a year. The average length of tenure among nurses and caregivers at the Jewish Home is nine years.
• Very few California nursing homes provide on-site clinics. In addition to its many services, the Jewish Home offers on-site eye care, dentistry, physical therapy, cardiology, podiatry, acupuncture, and therapeutic massage. Therefore, instead of having to travel off-site and then wait to be seen and cared for by strangers, residents remain safely and comfortably at the Home for their treatments.
• It would be difficult to find another facility that offers its residents a comparable range of life-enhancing programs that are centered on the arts and Jewish culture (including kosher food), and benefits such as the on-site beauty salon. The goal is to keep residents busy and involved in life. The positive results of these programs and enhancements are heard in the buzz of conversation and laughter that fill the corridors of the Jewish Home, and are evident in the ever-changing displays of residents’ artwork throughout the campus.

In these ways, and in so many others, the Jewish Home sets the standard for excellence in senior care.

Ensuring Compassionate Care – Today and Tomorrow

As a non-profit organization, the Jewish Home relies on community generosity to maintain the high standard of its care and services. Contributions ensure that the Home will be able to continue serving the body and soul of our community’s elderly.

Today’s residents face medical challenges that are more complex than at any other time in history. Care now requires a broader range of treatment, including clinical and psychological services. The cost of one resident’s care at the Jewish Home exceeds $100,000 annually. While some residents are able to afford this, nearly 85 percent of the Home’s more than 375 residents receive some form of assistance – assistance that has become increasingly unreliable and difficult to predict. In recent years, the unfunded cost of care – the amount not covered by any form of reimbursement – has ranged from $7,500 to $25,000 per resident, per year.

That is why the Jewish Home has launched Forsake Me Not, a major gifts initiative to underwrite that portion of care not covered by other funding sources. Forsake Me Not is a new element of the Home’s Annual Fund. The goal is to raise at least $1 million from generous individuals committed to providing our seniors with uncompromising care, for as long as the need exists.

Your charitable gift to the Forsake Me Not campaign will enable our residents to continue their lives in a manner characterized by compassion and dignity. It will give them a secure home, help them hear better and move more easily, and nurture their spiritual needs. Your gift is truly g’milut chasadim – an act of loving kindness.

So please, give generously. Your kindness and generosity will be returned in so many respects.