Bailey-Boushay House, founded June 24, 1992, is an inpatient long-term care facility and outpatient day health program for people with

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, USA. It is an affiliate of

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History

Bailey-Boushay House was the first inpatient hospice facility for AIDS patients in the

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. It was founded by Betsy Lieberman and Christine Hurley of AIDS Housing of

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with support from sources including

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, the Northwest AIDS Foundation, and an anonymous donation of $100,000 via the Archdiocese of Seattle. The facility was created as a response to the lack of skilled nursing facilities available for AIDS patients. Its planned location in the Madison Valley neighborhood drew opposition due to concerns about the proposed outpatient population. At the time, a member of the facility's opposition was on the board of the

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. In May 1990, the Seattle chapter of ACT UP scheduled a

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of the museum construction site to show support for local AIDS patients, but two days before the shutdown the opposition relented. The facility was named after

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publisher Thatcher Bailey, a founding donor, and his partner Frank Boushay, who died of AIDS in 1989. Bailey-Boushay House was dedicated on January 12, 1992. By 1992, over 2,000 cases of AIDS had been diagnosed in King County, with 90% of the cases present in

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. In the first years at Bailey-Boushay, patients would often arrive from hospitals only a few days before their death from AIDS-related complications. In the early 1990s, the photographers Saul Bromberger and Sandra Hoover documented the daily life of Bailey-Boushay patients, and their work was published in

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magazine on

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in 2014. Every year on

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, Bailey-Boushay House used to place hundreds of red balloons on the outside of their facility to officially thank the community for their support.

Current work

As of 2017, due to the significant decrease in death rates from

due to

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, the 35-bed inpatient program at Bailey-Boushay House serves patients with a variety of life-threatening diagnoses, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and

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, providing long-term, respite, and end-of-life care. The outpatient day health program serves patients with

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who are homeless, and/or capable of living independently in the community but require medication management and social support. Bailey-Boushay House plans to open a 50-bed overnight shelter to promote housing stability for its outpatient clients, with a projected opening date of November 1, 2018. Over the past two years, the Daily Outpatient Program has exploded from 100 outpatients to over 400 outpatients. This fact, combined with the complexities of opening a new overnight shelter for the homeless, is causing prolonged increasing strain to the Daily Outpatient Program, resulting in the loss of events regularly provided to benefit the Outpatients' health and enriching their lives s of Oct. 2018

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External links

Bailey-Boushay House
official site
Photos of the First AIDS Hospice Center Tell a Story of Struggle and Resilience
photo essay in Mother Jones magazine, December 2014 Residential buildings in Seattle HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States Nursing homes in the United States Non-profit organizations based in Seattle Homeless shelters Homeless shelters in the United States Patient advocacy Patient reported outcome measures Patient safety 1992 establishments in Washington (state)