Local Management with a Personal Touch

Unlike many retirement and extended care facilities these days, Doolittle Home is privately and independently managed by a volunteer board of local officers and trustees. Trustees enjoy a social hour with the residents prior to each board meeting. Trustees are regular participants in many of the resident’s activities. Trustees know the residents and the staff.

Doolittle Home is a non-profit organization organized under section 501 c (3) of the IRS code. As such, Doolittle Home must demonstrate outside support through donations, a general solicitation and fund-raising activities and must provide care at a lower cost than could be obtained on the open market. Residents must also be afforded some sense of financial security and in the case of life care residents; funds must be available to continue those services even beyond depletion of the individual’s upfront payments. Doolittle Home maintains a reserve to fund the care for the life of all residents.