Clay Huckabee
Executive Director
Clay grew up on a dairy outside Dublin and ran hospitals in Fort Worth before coming home. He still feeds the horses on Sunday mornings.
Our people
Meet our team
The people who keep the ranch running and the residents cared for.
Our team
The hands
Rhonda Whitt, RN
Director of Nursing
Rhonda trained at Tarleton and has led nursing on the ranch for fourteen years, across every building.
Dr. Samuel Reyes
Medical Director
A family physician in Erath County for twenty years. He sees residents in the campus clinic three mornings a week.
Jo Beth Carver
Director of Residency
Jo Beth walks every family through contracts and moving day. She's never hurried anybody.
Angela Ruiz, LMSW
Social Worker
Angela helps families with moves between levels of care, Medicaid and VA paperwork, and the hard talks.
Kristen Moore
Life Enrichment Director
Kristen runs the market, the rodeo outings and the Friday fish fry, and she keeps the calendar full.
Pastor Wade Ellis
Chaplain
Pastor Wade leads cowboy church in the arena every Sunday and visits the Health Center every day.
Marcus Bell
Admissions Coordinator
Marcus works with hospitals in Stephenville, Granbury and Fort Worth to get rehab patients admitted the same day.
Luis Garza
Ranch Manager and Wrangler
Luis keeps the horses, the fences and the garden in order, and he'll teach anybody who wants to learn.
Sample family reviews
Straight talk from residents
I ran cattle for fifty-two years. I told my kids I'd move when they found me a place with a horse. They found fourteen.
Mama sells her tomatoes at the Saturday market and keeps the money in a coffee can. She's ninety-one.
Dad had dementia and wouldn't settle anywhere. At Homestead House they let him help feed the horses. He calmed right down.
My knee rehab was in the River Health Center. My wife drove the golf cart over from our cottage twice a day.
I can see the pasture from my porch and the river from my kitchen. I didn't give up anything to move here.
They explained the contract like a neighbor would. No pressure. We signed a month later.
The nurses call us in Houston after every care meeting. We always know how Dad is.
Cowboy church in the arena on Sunday morning. Best seat in the county.
I fish the river three mornings a week. Haven't caught much. Haven't minded.
Mama's last weeks were in the Health Center, with the window open to the pasture and the chaplain by her bed. It was right.
The coffee's hot and the horses are fed. Come on out.
Call Clay or book a tour online.