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Medication administration and daily health checks
Morning and noon doses, vitals, blood sugar and weight, with a note home every day.
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Adult day health · Stephenville, Texas
Ranchers, teachers and a seat at the table.
Green Creek is a licensed adult day health center two blocks off the square: nurses on the floor, therapy on site, Tex-Mex Thursdays and a van that runs every county road in Erath.
- 6:45afirst van pickup
- 52members on a busy day
- 2nurses on the floor
01 · How it started
A dairy farmer's daughter, a nurse, and an empty feed store.
Ramona Villarreal grew up on a dairy outside Dublin and spent twenty years as a nurse at the hospital in town. When her father had a stroke in 2006, he couldn't stay alone on the farm and he wouldn't hear of a nursing home. The nearest day program was in Fort Worth.
So she leased the old feed store on Belknap, poured a new floor, hired two nurses and a cook from her church, and opened in 2007 with her father and eight of his friends. Today fifty-some members come through: cattlemen and dairymen, teachers from Tarleton, mechanics and church pianists, all of them with a seat at the table.
— Ramona Villarreal, RN, founder
- 6:45afirst van pickup
- 52members on a busy day
- 2nurses on the floor
- 18years on Belknap Street
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Physical and occupational therapy
Licensed therapists on site four mornings a week.
By referral
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Tex-Mex Thursdays
Enchiladas, rice and beans from Ramona's mother's recipes.
Weekly
Nobody here is a patient. They are ranchers, teachers, mechanics and grandmothers, and they still have opinions about the weather, the Tarleton game and the price of feed.
Photo tour
Faces of Green Creek
Sample family reviews
In their words
Daddy ran cattle for sixty years and he'd have run off any sitter we hired. At Green Creek he reads the farm report out loud every morning. He has a job.
Anita had my husband walking to the mailbox again four months after his stroke.
The van comes out to our place on a caliche road. Dale has never been late, not even in the ice storm.
Mom taught at Tarleton for thirty-one years. The staff still call her Dr. Fischer, and she loves it.
Joe noticed Dad was short of breath at lunch and called his cardiologist before I got off work. They adjusted his medicine that afternoon.
My grandmother speaks mostly Spanish. Half the staff do too. She is completely at home.
We milk at four in the morning. The 6:45 van is the only reason we could keep Mom at home.
My husband rebuilt a lawnmower engine in the shop. It runs. He tells everyone at church.
Elena got Dad's VA benefit approved in six weeks after we'd been stuck for a year.
Rooms & suites
The building
One big room under the old feed-store rafters, and smaller rooms for the parts of the day that need them.
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The big room
The old feed-store floor under the original rafters, with long tables, the coffee bar and the domino corner.
- Original rafters
- Coffee bar
- Stage
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The therapy room
Parallel bars, practice stairs and mats, used four mornings a week.
- Parallel bars
- Practice stairs
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The shop
A workbench under the loading-dock door for leather, wood and small engines.
- Workbench
- Supervised tools
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The quiet room
Recliners and low light for naps and calm afternoons.
- Recliners
- Dementia-friendly
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The shower suite
A roll-in shower and a trained aide, so bath day is one less job at home.
- Roll-in shower
- Grab bars
Our team
The hands
Ramona Villarreal, RN
Founder and director
Joe Kuykendall, RN
Director of nursing
Dr. Anita Shah, PT
Therapy director
Elena Ruiz, LMSW
Social worker
Activities & dining
This week on Belknap
A sample week. The full calendar goes home on the first of the month.
Mon
- Coffee and the farm report
- Forty-two tournament
Tue
- Fix-it shop
- Garden beds
Wed
- Country music hour
- Church choir visit
Thu
- Tex-Mex lunch
- Chair exercise
Fri
- Gospel hour
- Friday bingo
For families
For the family at home
How the day works for the people doing the chores, the driving and the worrying.
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Early mornings
The first van leaves at 6:45. Tell us your milking or shift schedule and we'll build the route around it.
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The daily note
A note goes home every afternoon: meals, vitals, mood and anything our nurses noticed.
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Medicines
Send day-time doses in the pharmacy bottle. Our nurses log every one and flag refills.
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Harvest and calving
Need extra days when the work piles up? Ask us. We add days whenever space allows.
Insurance & payment
Paying for the day
Our social worker checks every option with you, in English or Spanish.
Private pay
One daily rate, meals and the van included, billed monthly.
Texas Medicaid programs
Home and community-based programs can cover adult day for members who qualify. We help with the application.
VA benefits
Adult day health care is a VA benefit for eligible veterans.
Long-term care insurance
Many policies include adult day. We fill out the forms.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Readers' Choice · Best Senior Program
- County Chamber · Small Business of the Year
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- Regional Hospital · Preferred Day Program
- Veterans Coalition · Community Partner
- University Nursing Program · Clinical Partner
- Main Street Program · Building Reuse Award
Now hiring
Good people make Green Creek Adult Day. We are hiring for every shift.
Visit
Find us off the square
- 411 N Belknap Street
Stephenville, TX
Free parking along Belknap and in our side lot. Pull under the tin awning and someone will meet the truck. - (254) 555-0158
- Text us
- frontporch@greencreekday.example
- GreenCreekAdultDay
Tour & office hours
- Program, Mon – Fri6:45a – 5:30p
- Tours, Mon – Fri9a – 3p
- Families drop inAny time we are open
Coffee's on at six-forty-five.
Come see the place, or bring your dad for a free day with lunch and the van. Call, text or book online.