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District of Columbia has 18 licensed nursing homes listed on ElderCareCosts across 1 city. The median estimated cost statewide is $14,916/mo. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.
18 licensed nursing homes listed · 17 with CMS star ratings.
Median monthly price, District of Columbia
$14,916/mo
Modeled range $14,239 – $17,327 how this range is derived
● District of Columbia $14,916 ○ National median $10,205
Median costs for nursing homes versus District of Columbia and the middle state nationally. The 25th and 75th percentile rows are the modeled range explained on the methodology page; in the national column they are percentiles across state medians. Figures are estimates, not quotes.
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Medicare generally does not cover long-term custodial care. State-specific Medicaid waiver guides are coming soon.
CMS overall star ratings for 17 nursing homes in District of Columbia. We do not re-rank these scores.
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District of Columbia has 17 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published August 1, 2026. CMS publishes what it fined them, when it stopped paying for new admissions, how many nursing hours they staffed, and what its inspectors wrote up. These are those records counted. A penalty is an enforcement action on a date, not a verdict on the care a resident receives today.
76%13 of 17 (76%)
A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and July 29, 2026.
24%4 of 17 (24%)
A payment denial is CMS refusing to pay for newly admitted Medicare and Medicaid residents until the facility corrects the problem it cited.
$97,607in fines · 11 facilities
The middle facility's total across every civil money penalty CMS recorded for it in this window, not the amount of a single fine.
4.84hours · 16 facilities
1.16 hours above the national median of 3.68 hours.
Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q1 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.
65%11 of 17 (65%)
Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated June 16, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.
These figures cover nursing homes and nothing else on this site. Penalties, payroll staffing and inspection citations in this form are federal records that CMS keeps for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and in-home agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, and the state penalty files we hold are not comparable to these. We would rather show one honest set of numbers than a national-looking figure stitched from regulators that do not measure the same thing.
Every share above is printed with the number of facilities behind it. Where a place has too few facilities for a share to mean anything, we print the count and say so rather than a percentage. How we count, and what we will not count, is in our methodology.
District of Columbia Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in District of Columbia resolve concerns about care and rights.
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Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOVNamed programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.
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We currently list 18 licensed nursing homes across District of Columbia.
We track 1 District of Columbia city for nursing homes. See the city list on this page for options near you.
Past 60 days in District of Columbia: 18 added · 66 updated. Most recent change Sep 2. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not confirmed licensing actions.
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Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, nursing homes in District of Columbia cost $14,916/month (median).
APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (2026). Nursing Homes in District of Columbia. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 19, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/nursing-homes/district-of-columbia/
Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Nursing Homes in District of Columbia." ElderCareCosts. Last modified August 10, 2026. Accessed September 19, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/nursing-homes/district-of-columbia/.
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