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Medication administration and daily health checks
Vitals, blood sugar, weights and noon medicines, with a written note home each day.
Included
Adult day health · Galveston Island
Island grown-ups, good days and a nurse down the hall.
A licensed adult day health center six blocks from the seawall. Breakfast at seven, nursing all day, therapy, music and a lift van that covers the island.
- 6:45afirst van pickup
- 3nurses on staff
- 11years on the island
Why Seawall
Built up on pilings, backed by a generator, full of people who know the island.
After Hurricane Ike, half the day programs on the island did not reopen. Lourdes Ybarra had run the nursing side of one of them for nine years. In 2011 she found a raised building on Avenue O, put in a generator big enough to keep the lights and the refrigerated medicines on, and opened Seawall with fourteen members.
Today the members are shrimpers and dock workers, retired teachers and nurses, and a few grandmothers who have outlasted every storm since Carla. They come for the breakfast, the dominoes and the company. Families send them because a nurse is here all day and the van shows up on time.
— Lourdes Ybarra, RN, director and founder
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Music, dancing and Friday sing-alongs
Zydeco, conjunto, gospel and Glenn Miller, depending on who gets to the radio first.
Weekly
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Wheelchair-lift van, island-wide
Door to door from the east end to Jamaica Beach.
IncludedPhoto tour
A week at Seawall
Our team
The crew
Lourdes Ybarra, RN
Director and founder
Thirty years of nursing on the island, nine of them running an adult day program before Ike. She still covers the nurse's station on Fridays.
Keisha Arnaud, LVN
Charge nurse
Keisha grew up on 41st Street and came to Seawall from a hospital cardiac floor. She runs the noon med pass and the diabetes checks.
Andre Pellerin
Program and transportation coordinator
Andre plans the outings, drives the morning route and keeps the domino tournament honest.
Now hiring
Good people make Seawall Day Center. We are hiring for every shift.
Sample family reviews
From Seawall families
Daddy shrimped out of Pier 19 for forty years. At Seawall he sits by the window and tells the new guys how it used to be. That's his whole day and he loves it.
Before the last storm, Lourdes called me before I had even thought about it. She already knew Mom's oxygen needs and where we were going to stay.
I work twelves at the hospital. The van is at our door at a quarter to seven. That is the only reason this works.
My husband has Parkinson's. The therapists here kept him walking two years longer than his doctor expected.
My grandmother taught school on the island for thirty years. Half the staff were her students. She grades their handwriting.
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Find us on the island
- 2714 Avenue O
Galveston, TX
Pull under the covered drop-off on 27th Street. Our building sits up on pilings, and the ramp and lift are on the east side. - (409) 555-0182
- Text us
- ahoy@seawallday.example
- SeawallDayCenter
Tour & office hours
- Program, Mon – Fri6:45a – 5:30p
- Tours, Mon – Fri9:30a – 2:30p
- Families drop inAny time we are open
Come for breakfast. We'll send the van.
Your first day is free, breakfast and lunch included. Call or text and we'll pick a morning.