Charlotte Easley, LNFA
Administrator
Charlotte grew up in Diboll and started here as a weekend receptionist in nursing school. She has run the building for eleven years and still answers her own phone.
Our people
Meet our team
Nurses, caregivers and leaders who stay, and who know every resident by name.
Our team
The people on the hall
Marcus Bell, RN
Director of Nursing
Marcus spent fourteen years in hospital ICUs before coming home to long-term care. He makes rounds on all three halls before eight every morning.
Anita Raman, MD
Medical Director
An internal medicine physician in Lufkin for twenty years, Dr. Raman sees residents weekly and reviews every rehab admission within a day.
Jared Whitley, PT, DPT
Director of Rehabilitation
Jared built our seven-day therapy schedule. He counts his success in porch steps, fishing boats and grandchildren lifted.
Dana Pruitt, LMSW
Social Services Director
Dana meets every new family in the first two days and is the person to call about Medicaid, advance directives or a hard conversation.
Lupe Garza
Activities Director
Lupe runs the calendar, the garden club and the Friday radio broadcast of the football game, which nobody is allowed to talk over.
Kendrick Ross, CDM
Dietary Manager
Kendrick's kitchen serves three hundred plates a day. He visits every new resident to ask what they like, and writes it down.
Sample family reviews
Families and patients, in their words
I came in on a stretcher after my knee replacement and walked out twenty-two days later. Jared had me climbing the four steps to my own porch before they let me leave.
Daddy had a stroke in March. They worked with him on a Sunday, which surprised me. He's back at the house with home health now and feeding his cows.
Mama has lived here three years. Marcus knows her medications better than I do, and he calls me before I have to call him.
Dana sat with us for an hour going through the Medicaid paperwork. We would have quit on page two without her.
The wound on Dad's heel had been open for months. Six weeks here and it closed. The nurse showed me pictures every Friday so I could see it healing.
My husband loves the catfish on Fridays and the ball game on the radio. It's small things, but they are his things.
We toured before my surgery so I knew which room I'd be in. That took half the fear out of it.
Going home is the plan. Let's start it now.
Call admissions from the hospital and we can usually accept a patient the same day.