Loudoun hospice patients requiring inpatient care will soon have a facility in the county just for them.

The Adler Center for Caring on the Van Metre Campus for Hospice Care is scheduled to open in 2013. Capital Hospice hopes to break ground on the project in the spring of 2011.

The Adler Center will be a 48,000-square-foot, 21-bed inpatient care facility with a palliative care clinic, meeting space and clinical offices for hospice care teams.

Currently, hospice patients in Loudoun have to travel to the 15-bed Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington for this type of care, or go to a hospital.

“There’s nothing like this in our area,” said Linda Rawlett, Capital Hospice’s Loudoun region general manager.

“It will be so welcome.”

In addition to providing hospice care for inpatients, the Adler Center will have a palliative care practice to help non-hospice patients with symptom management.

Patients from Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier and western Fairfax counties will use the facility.

Those staying in the inpatient part of the center will have private rooms, each with a patio so that the patients’ beds can be rolled outside for access to fresh air.
Capital Hospice patients are usually treated in their homes so that they can be near their families and in a familiar setting.

The Adler Center will be open to patients who have become so ill that their at-home caregivers can no longer provide care for them, need close monitoring because of a change in medication or dosage, have special needs or acute care requirements, have at-home caregivers who need a break to prevent exhaustion or have at-home caregivers who are going to be unavailable for some reason. The facility is meant for short-term stays.

The Adler Center is named for Len and Dale Adler, who gave a large donation for the facility and have been Capital Hospice supporters for years. The Van Metre Companies donated four acres of land in the Stone Ridge community off of Route 50 for the facility.

Building the Center will cost roughly $15 million, which will be provided through many sources, including donations.

To help

Donations are needed to fund the construction of the Adler Center for Caring. To donate, visit http://www.capitalhospice.org/support/donation/ or call the Capital Hospice Philanthropy Department at 703-531-6209