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Dining credits for the Commons dining room and the Lane Café
Breakfast tacos at the café every morning, and King Ranch casserole on Wednesdays.
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Chapter 01 — On Sweetbriar Lane, above Nolan Creek, Belton, TX
Belton, Texas
Every day here has a beginning, a middle and a sweet end.
Cottages and apartments with assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing on thirty acres above Nolan Creek, a mile from the Bell County courthouse square.
Chapter one: welcome
A small-town place for the best parts of the day.
Sweetbriar Lane was built in 1992 by Belton families who wanted their parents to stay close to the courthouse square, the Friday football games and the church they'd been married in. It started with twenty cottages around a rose-covered lane. Today it's cottages, apartments, assisted living, memory care and a skilled nursing center, all within a short walk of each other.
We think of every day here as a small story. It starts with coffee on the patio, wanders through lunch with the grandkids or a class in the studio, and ends with dinner and, more often than you'd think, somebody's birthday cake. When a resident needs more care, the story doesn't change address.
— Carmen Ybarra-Holt, executive director
Photo tour
A day on Sweetbriar Lane
We believe the days of a long life should still feel like days: coffee with someone you love, a grandchild at the table, a reason to dress up, a cake with candles on it. Care is how we protect those days, not what replaces them.
What sets us apart
Three things families remember
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A birthday cake for every resident, every year
Baked by our pastry cook, delivered with the whole hallway singing.
Included
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Family dining room for Sunday lunch with the grandkids
IncludedRooms & suites
Homes on the lane
Cottages and apartments for independent living, and private suites for assisted living and memory care.
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Sweetbriar cottage
Two bedrooms, a front porch on the lane and a garage, with a kitchen big enough for Sunday lunch.
- Two bedrooms
- Front porch
- Attached garage
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Commons apartment
One-bedroom apartments a hallway from the café, the library and the pool.
- Full kitchen
- Washer and dryer
- Balcony
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Two-bedroom apartment
Corner apartments with creek views and room for a guest bed or a sewing room.
- Two baths
- Creek view
- Covered parking
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Rosebud House suite
A private assisted living suite with a kitchenette and a window seat.
- Kitchenette
- Walk-in shower
- Emergency call system
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Arbor suite
A calm private room in memory care, opening onto the walking garden.
- Private bath
- Garden view
- Memory display case
- 1992opened on Sweetbriar Lane
- 30acres along Nolan Creek
- 4levels of care, one campus
- 312birthdays celebrated last year, with cake
Our team
The people in the story
Carmen Ybarra-Holt
Executive Director
Tanya Brooks, RN
Director of Nursing
Dr. Raymond Okafor
Medical Director
Lucy Tran
Pastry Cook
Sample family reviews
Notes from our families
Mom and Dad have coffee on the patio every morning at seven. Same table, same order, thirty years married. The staff have their cups waiting.
Our grandkids come for Sunday lunch in the family dining room. They think it's a restaurant. I don't correct them.
I turned ninety and the whole hallway sang. Lucy made my cake look like my old Chevy.
When Dad moved to the Arbor, they made a life-story book with us. Every caregiver read it. They knew he was a band director before they ever met him.
My rehab after the knee was in the Health Center, and my wife walked over from our cottage every afternoon with a crossword.
We read the contract three times. They answered every question in writing. That's why we signed.
I'm in the art studio three mornings a week. I hadn't painted since 1970.
The nurses call us in Houston after every care meeting. We never feel far away.
Mama's last weeks were in the Health Center with the chaplain stopping by every day. They brought her coffee on the patio until the very end.
Activities & dining
This month on the lane
A sample month. Residents add their own events every week.
Mon
- Coffee club on the patio, 7 a.m.
Tue
- Watercolor class in the art studio
Wed
- Bus to the square and lunch on Central
Thu
- Garden club in the greenhouse
Fri
- Friday night lights: bus to the Belton Tigers game
Sat
- Grandkids' cookie decorating in the café
Sun
- Chapel, then Sunday lunch in the family dining room
Every week
- Birthday cake for whoever's turning a year older
For families
For families
You're part of the story too.
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One point of contact
A nurse and a social worker who return calls the same day.
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Care conferences
In person or by video, around your schedule.
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Family dining room
Reserve it for Sunday lunch, free.
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Guest suite
A furnished guest suite for visiting family.
Insurance & payment
Understanding the cost
How life plan communities are paid for, in plain words.
Entrance fee
A one-time payment for a life care contract. Depending on the plan, part may be refundable.
Monthly fee
Covers your home, dining, services and amenities.
Medicare
Covers short-term skilled nursing and rehab after a qualifying hospital stay, not independent or assisted living.
Medicaid
Accepted in our skilled nursing center for those who qualify.
VA benefits
Some veterans and surviving spouses qualify for pension benefits that help with care costs. Ask our social worker.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Sample: Best Senior Living, County Readers' Poll
- Sample: Not-for-Profit Excellence Award
- Sample: Top Workplace
Visit
Above Nolan Creek
- 800 Sweetbriar Lane
Belton, TX
Visitor parking under the live oaks at the Commons. A golf cart can meet you at your car. - (254) 555-0164
- Text us
- hello@sweetbriarlane.example
- SweetbriarLaneBelton
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 5p
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Families visitAny time
Families are welcome any hour. After 9p, ring the bell at the Commons door.
The coffee's on. Come write a chapter.
Call Carmen or book a tour online.