How we care

Nursing care

A registered nurse on site every day, caregivers awake overnight

• Dementia-trained caregivers

  Consistent assignments, so the same faces greet residents every week.

  24/7

• Registered nurse oversight

  Weekly reviews and a call home whenever anything changes.

  Included

• Medication management

  Pharmacy-packed and given by certified medication aides.

  Included

• Visiting physician and nurse practitioner

  Seen here, billed to Medicare where it applies.

  Monthly

• Therapy referrals

  Physical, occupational and speech therapy here when ordered.

  Medicare Part B

• Podiatry, dental and vision

  No trip to Corpus Christi needed.

  On site

• Hospice coordination

  Residents can usually stay home, with their spouse, through the end of life.

  As needed

Personal care

• Bathing, dressing and grooming

  Private, patient and at each person's own pace.

  Included

• Continence and skin care

  On a regular schedule, handled with dignity.

  Included

• Salon and barber

  Wash and set, a trim, a shave before date night.

  Weekly

• Laundry and housekeeping

  Labeled, pressed and put away.

  Included

• Fall-prevention walking program

  A morning stroll on the seawall, with a caregiver at each elbow.

  Daily

For couples

Twelve couples live here today

• Companion suites

  Two bedrooms, a shared sitting room and a door to the porch.

  Couples

• Support for the well spouse

  A social worker who checks on the caregiver as well as the resident.

  Included

• Date night

  Thursday supper for two on the porch, tablecloth and candle included.

  Weekly

• Couples' dance hour

  Big band and slow songs in the parlor on Saturday afternoons.

  Weekly

• Anniversary celebrations

  Cake, photographs and the wedding song.

  Yearly

• Spouse meals and guest rooms

  For spouses who live at home and want to stay late or overnight.

  Ask us

Life on the bay

• Fenced seawall and fishing pier

  Six hundred feet of private, level waterfront with benches and rails.

  Included

• Fishing mornings

  Rods, bait and a caregiver who knows how to untangle a line.

  Weekly

• Sunset on the porch

  Lemonade, a rocking chair and the best show in Aransas County.

  Daily

• Shell and birding walks

  Herons, pelicans and in winter the whooping cranes across the bay.

  Weekly

• Three meals and snacks

  Gulf shrimp, redfish on Fridays and finger foods whenever they help.

  Included

• Music and memory hour

  Personal playlists, and a piano in the parlor.

  Daily

• Chapel on the porch

  Led by volunteers from three Rockport churches.

  Sundays

• Garden courtyard

  Bougainvillea, oleander and shade from the old live oaks.

  Included

For families

• Family support group

  First Tuesday evening, open to any family on the Coastal Bend.

  Monthly

• Weekly letter and photos

  A short note from the household lead, with a picture or two.

  Weekly

• Care conferences

  In person or by video, with the nurse and social worker.

  Quarterly

• Social worker

  Help with benefits, paperwork and the move itself.

  Included

• Hurricane plan

  A written evacuation plan with an inland partner, reviewed every spring.

  Included