Meet Nimmi Perera, Owner of Bright Hands
Bright Hands is a 5-resident assisted living home in Silver Spring, MD. Maryland Assisted Living Manager · CMT · CNA · 10+ years in senior care.
I run it personally - every medication pass, every family conversation, every overnight check-in. That's the difference between a facility with sixty residents and a home with five. Below: why I opened it, how we care for residents, and exactly what our Maryland Level 3 license permits.
- Address
- 14109 Burning Bush Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20906
- Phone
- 301-871-1021
- Owner
- Nimmi Perera, Owner & Care Manager
- Credentials
- MD-ALM, CMT, CNA. 10+ years in senior care
- Capacity
- 5 private rooms, single-occupancy
- License
- MD OHCQ Level 3 (highest care-complexity tier)
- Starting rate
- From $5,000 per month, all-inclusive
- Payment
- Private pay, private insurance, SSI, SSDI
- Languages
- English; coordinated communication in Spanish
- Service area
- Silver Spring, Aspen Hill, Wheaton, Leisure World, Kemp Mill, Glenmont, Colesville, White Oak, MD
Why Nimmi opened a small assisted living home in Silver Spring
After more than a decade working in Maryland senior-care settings - assisted living homes, large facilities, and what Maryland sometimes calls personal care homes - 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.
Nimmi Perera
Owner & Care Manager
- Maryland Assisted Living Manager (certified)
- Certified Medication Technician (CMT)
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- 10+ years in Maryland 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
Nimmi knows each resident by name, preference, and 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 five-bedroom residential home. Five beds, all-inclusive, with private pay, private insurance, SSI, and SSDI accepted.
Who's actually here, around the clock
Nimmi runs daily care, family communication, and medication oversight personally. She's not on-call from off-site - she lives in the routine of the home.
Overnight, weekends, and during Nimmi's scheduled time off, care is covered by trained backup CMT/CNA caregivers who Nimmi has worked alongside for years and who know each resident personally before stepping into a shift. We don't pull staff from agencies and we don't rotate strangers through the home.
Maryland's Level 3 license requires specific credentialed coverage at all hours - we exceed those minimums and carry redundancy by design, so a single person being unavailable never affects a resident's care.
Conditions we commonly support
Maryland Level 3 licensure covers a wide range of medical and cognitive conditions in an assisted-living setting. Below are the ones we see most often. If you don't see your loved one's specific situation, call us - the answer is usually "yes, with the right plan."
Memory care
Mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, sundowning support, structured routines.
Mobility & ADL support
Walker- and wheelchair-mobile residents, two-person transfers, post-fall recovery, ambulation assistance.
Chronic conditions
Diabetes (oral and insulin), CHF, COPD, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease.
Neurological
Parkinson's disease, post-stroke recovery, essential tremor, Lewy body dementia.
Post-hospital
Short-term recovery after hospital discharge, fall recovery, surgical recovery (joint replacement and similar).
Medication management
Complex regimens (10+ daily medications), insulin, blood thinners, scheduled and PRN, double-check protocol.
Conditions we typically refer out: late-stage dementia with elopement risk that requires a locked memory-care unit, residents requiring active wound vac or ventilator care, and behavioral health diagnoses requiring 1:1 supervision. We tell families honestly when a different setting would serve their loved one better.
About Nimmi and the home
Who runs Bright Hands Assisted Living?
Nimmi Perera owns and personally runs Bright Hands. She is a Maryland Assisted Living Manager (MD-ALM), Certified Medication Technician (CMT), and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) with more than 10 years of hands-on senior-care experience. Every medication pass, family conversation, and overnight check is handled by her, not by a rotating shift of aides.
How many residents live at Bright Hands?
A maximum of five residents at a time. Bright Hands is a small-home assisted living residence licensed by Maryland OHCQ at Level 3. The cap of five is set by Maryland licensing for Level 3 programs at this address.
What does "MD OHCQ Level 3 Licensed" mean?
Level 3 is the highest care-complexity tier issued by the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ). It permits assisted living programs to serve residents with complex medical, cognitive, and mobility needs that lower-tier (Level 1 or 2) programs cannot. Bright Hands is inspected annually by OHCQ to maintain this license.
What credentials does Nimmi Perera hold?
Nimmi holds three Maryland senior-care certifications: Maryland Assisted Living Manager (MD-ALM), Certified Medication Technician (CMT), and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). She has more than 10 years of professional senior-care experience, including in larger assisted living facilities and personal care homes before opening Bright Hands.
How is Bright Hands different from a larger assisted living facility?
At Bright Hands, the same caregiver who tours you is the caregiver who handles medication passes, family calls, and overnight checks. With only five residents, families know by name exactly who is looking after their loved one. Larger facilities (60 or more residents) typically rotate different aides across shifts, so the person you meet on tour is rarely the person providing day-to-day care.
Come see the home in person.
45 minutes, in person, with Nimmi. No sales pitch.