Chapter 01
Eighteen years of house calls
Jolene Tidwell drove every back road in Cleburne County as a home health nurse. Her patients loved the lake and dreaded the day they would have to leave it.
Our story
How we got here
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
From a nurse's car to a house on the lake
Chapter 02
A ranger's retirement plan
Mark spent his career with the Corps of Engineers on Greers Ferry Lake. When he retired, Jolene had an idea for how they could spend the next twenty years, and it involved a lot of remodeling.
Chapter 03
The cedar house on Bluebird Point
In 2012 they bought a rambling cedar house with three hundred feet of shoreline, added a wing of rooms, widened every door and paved a lighted path to the dock.
Chapter 04
The first morning on the dock
Their first resident was a retired fishing guide who had been one of Jolene's patients. He was on the dock at seven the first morning, and it has been a tradition ever since.
Chapter 05
Still sixteen
Families have asked us to build more rooms. We have stayed at sixteen so every caregiver knows every resident, and so there is always a spot on the dock.
- 16residents, each in a private room
- 300feet of shoreline and our own dock
- 2013the year Sugarloaf House opened
- 5:1residents to caregivers by day
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Cleburne County Readers' Choice · Best Senior Care (sample)
- Heber Springs Chamber · Small Business of the Year (sample)
- Family survey · 98% would recommend (sample)
- Licensed residential care facility · Arkansas
Come see the lake from the dock.
Tours end on the dock with a cup of coffee, weather permitting. Call or text Jolene, or pick a time below.