Why Nimmi Opened a Small Assisted Living Home in Silver Spring
After more than a decade working in Maryland senior-care settings, Nimmi Perera saw the same gap again and again: families visiting facility after facility, meeting a sales director one week and a different aide every shift after move-in. Good people, stretched across forty or sixty residents. She opened Bright Hands because she believed a small home — five residents, run by the same credentialed caregiver who tours you — would let families know, by name, exactly who is looking after their parent at 2 in the morning.
Meet Nimmi Perera — Owner & Care Manager
Nimmi Perera
Owner & Care Manager
- Maryland Assisted Living Manager (certified)
- Certified Medication Technician (CMT)
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- 10+ years in senior care
Nimmi opened Bright Hands because she believed families shouldn't have to choose between a facility and a caregiver who knows their parent by name. She personally runs daily care, medication passes, and family communication at the Silver Spring home.
How We Care for Your Loved One
At Bright Hands, care isn't a shift — it's a relationship. Owner and care manager Nimmi Perera — a Maryland-certified Assisted Living Manager, CMT (Certified Medication Technician), and CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) with more than 10 years of senior-care experience — knows each resident by name, by preference, and by need: who takes her coffee black, who prefers tea with honey, who is a light sleeper, who needs extra time in the morning. Medications are administered under CMT authority on a double-check schedule. We provide assisted living, memory care and dementia support, respite and short-term stays, and couples care — all in a home setting, not a facility. We're licensed by the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality (License #AL-00806) at Level 3 — the highest care-complexity tier an assisted living program can hold in Maryland — and inspected annually. Five beds, private-pay, all-inclusive.
Our Maryland License & Your Family's Trust
Bright Hands operates under Maryland Office of Health Care Quality license #AL-00806, issued at Level 3 — the highest of Maryland's three assisted-living tiers. Level 3 is the tier that permits care for residents with significant medical needs, advanced dementia, or complex medication regimens. Most small homes in Montgomery County are licensed at Level 1 or 2. Level 3 means your parent can stay with us even as their needs grow, without being asked to move to a higher-acuity setting.
OHCQ inspects Bright Hands annually. Our license, inspection history, and complaint record are on the public OHCQ registry — you can look us up before you tour. We don't accept Medicaid, the Community Options waiver, or VA A&A direct billing; we're a private-pay home, and we're transparent about that up front.
What We Believe About Aging With Dignity
Aging with dignity means being known. Knowing the staff member handing you your morning pills is the same person who sat with you last night. Being asked how you'd like things, not told. Keeping your own furniture, your own blanket, your own photographs on the wall. Eating a meal that was cooked for you, not reheated on a cart. Having family walk in without a scheduled slot. We built Bright Hands so the home itself — five bedrooms, one table, one caregiver who knows you — makes those small daily dignities the default, not the exception.