Birmingham Green has a proud history as a financially accessible senior living facility in Northern Virginia.
For more than 90 years, Birmingham Green has been home to Northern Virginians needing long-term care, but do not necessarily have the personal resources to afford the services. Birmingham Green has continually provided dignified, caring assistance to our residents.
Dating back to 1926, when five localities in our region established a home for those who, for a variety of reasons, did not have the ability to care for themselves. Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, and the City of Alexandria purchased a 54-acre site on Centreville Road in Manassas, Virginia — a part of a larger region known as Birmingham Green. There, they built the District Home of Northern Virginia to provide food, shelter, and employment opportunities for those who needed it most in the area.
The original District Home was built on farmland, which many residents enjoyed helping to maintain — for nearly 20 years. By the 1950s, District Home was expanded to accommodate 80 residents and was a licensed rest home to care for the area’s lowest-income community members with disabilities.
Today, the campus – notably named Birmingham Green – is comprised of the recently refurbished 36-bed District Home Assisted Living, a 180-bed Northern Virginia Health Care Commission that opened in 1991 to provide nursing and rehab services, and the Willow Oaks Assisted Living, a 92-unit supportive housing facility that opened in 2008 to offer additional assisted living services.
In addition, Birmingham Green continues to fill a very unique and irreplaceable public-private partnership role that continues to be true to our historical mission for who we serve. The Northern Virginia Health Care Commission is a 100 percent Medicaid facility, the only such facility in Northern Virginia. Willow Oaks Assisted Living is a 100 percent Auxiliary Grant facility, also the only such facility in Northern Virginia that has dedicated all of its units for the state-administered grant program. Both facilities operate off community funds from the local governments to make up the difference between state-reimbursements and the full costs of senior living care. Birmingham Green has also been taking the initiative to anticipate the future, both in the depth and diversity of the needs, and the preferences of who we serve.
Birmingham Green has a proud history as a financially accessible senior living facility in Northern Virginia.
For more than 90 years, Birmingham Green has been home to Northern Virginians needing long-term care, but do not necessarily have the personal resources to afford the services. Birmingham Green has continually provided dignified, caring assistance to our residents.
Dating back to 1926, when five localities in our region established a home for those who, for a variety of reasons, did not have the ability to care for themselves. Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, and the City of Alexandria purchased a 54-acre site on Centreville Road in Manassas, Virginia — a part of a larger region known as Birmingham Green. There, they built the District Home of Northern Virginia to provide food, shelter, and employment opportunities for those who needed it most in the area.
The original District Home was built on farmland, which many residents enjoyed helping to maintain — for nearly 20 years. By the 1950s, District Home was expanded to accommodate 80 residents and was a licensed rest home to care for the area’s lowest-income community members with disabilities.
Today, the campus – notably named Birmingham Green – is comprised of the recently refurbished 36-bed District Home Assisted Living, a 180-bed Northern Virginia Health Care Commission that opened in 1991 to provide nursing and rehab services, and the Willow Oaks Assisted Living, a 92-unit supportive housing facility that opened in 2008 to offer additional assisted living services.
In addition, Birmingham Green continues to fill a very unique and irreplaceable public-private partnership role that continues to be true to our historical mission for who we serve. The Northern Virginia Health Care Commission is a 100 percent Medicaid facility, the only such facility in Northern Virginia. Willow Oaks Assisted Living is a 100 percent Auxiliary Grant facility, also the only such facility in Northern Virginia that has dedicated all of its units for the state-administered grant program. Both facilities operate off community funds from the local governments to make up the difference between state-reimbursements and the full costs of senior living care. Birmingham Green has also been taking the initiative to anticipate the future, both in the depth and diversity of the needs, and the preferences of who we serve.
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