Columbia Lutheran Home

About Columbia Lutheran Home

Columbia Lutheran Home has provided quality care in a comfortable and secure setting since 1920 when its doors opened as a retirement home for elderly Scandinavian immigrants on Phinney Ridge in Seattle, Washington. Evolving from the Augustana Lutheran Church tradition of caregiving, residents were drawn to the Home from as far away as Montana. The Rev. Dr. C.R. Swanson, pastor of Seattle's Gethsemane Lutheran Church, was the first superintendent when it was called the Columbia Conference Home for the Aged. The demand for more space continued through the years and today Columbia Lutheran is a modern remodeled 116-bed Medicare/Medicaid certified skilled nursing facility offering a range of services from short-term complex care to less complex extended care. A not-for-profit home offering progressive high quality care, Columbia is supported through the prayers, volunteers and financial support of twenty-four sponsoring churches and supportive individuals, families and congregations. Columbia is open to all, regardless of sex, nationality, religious affiliation or ability to pay.