08/19/2026
Most people make it here for the first time on someone else's behalf. A daughter over from the mainland for the weekend to check on her mother. A husband who has been managing on his own a lot longer than he should have been. It isn't an easy walk. It's sometimes perceived as losing freedom. It's actually about getting your freedom back. It's having the help you need to live the life you're still capable of having surrounded by people who care about you.
Village at the Harbor is 36 rooms on Spring Street. That's small, and it shows. A lot of our team have been here five years or more, so the person helping you in the morning is the same person who helped you last spring. Somebody keeps the bird feeder outside the window filled, and there are raised beds along the walk that people fuss over all summer.
What we provide is assisted living, which means housing plus meals, housekeeping and laundry, activities, and help with the daily things that get harder — bathing, dressing, getting around, managing medications. How much help is worked out with each resident, and residents decide what they want and what they'd rather do themselves. It's their home. We're staff in it.
Two of the people running the building are registered nurses. Hospice and home health agencies come in when a resident needs them, and families can bring in their own caregivers on top of what we do. That layering matters more than it sounds like it does. It's the reason many of our residents are able to stay in their own room here rather than being moved to the mainland.
There's a walkway straight over to the Mullis Center, and two vans, one of them wheelchair accessible, that get people out to things.
We're the only assisted living community in San Juan County. That makes it worth starting the conversation before you need it. Call, ask questions, come walk through the building, even if the answer for now is "not yet." We'd rather know you're out there.
Village at the Harbor, 543 Spring Street, Friday Harbor. 360-378-7144. Operated by San Juan County Public Hospital District No. 1.
