The AIDS epidemic was spreading in Seattle and King County in the 1980s, and by 1991, the area was seeing an average of 1.5 new AIDS cases per day. Specialized skilled nursing was needed, particularly for patients near the end of life. AIDS Housing of Washington opened Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle’s Madison Valley neighborhood in January 1992. Bailey-Boushay was the first facility in the nation designed and built specifically for people living with AIDS. From the start, it provided both in-house care and daytime care for people living at home.

Skip Wright, a former ballet dancer, designed a large stained-glass window for the Meditation Room at Bailey-Boushay House. Here, he sits looking at the window, with its imagery of maps and the natural world. Wright had been diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and looked forward to the opening of the new facility.

Caption information source: “Seattle house is first designed and built for for people with AIDS”, by Tom Paulson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 27, 1991, pages A1-A2.
Caption information source: https://www.bailey-boushay.org