Desmond Alcott
Executive Director
Desmond spent twenty years running hotels in Dallas and San Antonio before his mother needed senior living. He has run Vineyard Hall since it opened.
Our people
Meet our team
Nurses, caregivers and leaders who stay, and who know every resident by name.
Our team
Your hosts, your nurses, your neighbors
Lorraine Pham, RN
Director of Nursing
Lorraine leads the third-floor nursing team and does every assisted living assessment herself, usually over coffee.
Helen Marsh, MD
Visiting Physician
A Grapevine internist who sees residents in our clinic room on Tuesdays, for those who choose her as their doctor.
Rafael Ibarra
Executive Chef
Rafael cooked in Fort Worth steakhouses and a Napa inn. His braised short rib has its own fan club.
Claudia Beaumont
Dining Director & Sommelier
Claudia keeps the cellar, pours Thursday tastings and knows which residents want a half glass and which want the story behind the bottle.
Simone Achebe
Life Enrichment Director
Simone books the lecturers, the piano players and the railroad tickets, and has never missed a GrapeFest.
Natalie Corrigan
Residence Counselor
Natalie walks every family through floor plans, pricing and move-in, and she answers her cell phone on weekends.
Andre Fontaine, DPT
Therapy Director
Andre runs the therapy partnership on site and teaches the Wednesday balance class that residents swear by.
Rev. Thomas Whitlock
Chaplain
A retired Grapevine pastor who leads Sunday vespers and visits anyone who asks, of any faith or none.
Gloria Esquivel, LPN
Night Nurse Supervisor
Gloria has run the third floor overnight since 2016. Families know her as the calm voice at three in the morning.
Marcus Tellez
Director of Guest Services
Marcus leads the concierge, valet and housekeeping teams, and he still parks a car himself when the lobby gets busy.
Sample family reviews
Notes left at the concierge desk
My father ran a restaurant in Fort Worth for thirty years. The first night, the chef came out to his table and asked how the steak was. Dad said it was the first time in a year he had felt like himself.
We moved from a house in Colleyville with a pool we never used. Now we swim every morning, walk to Main Street for coffee and come home to a lobby with a fire going.
Lorraine sat with Mother for an hour before the move and wrote down how she likes her tea, her pillows and her radio station. It was all right on the first night.
I didn't expect a senior community to have a wine list. I certainly didn't expect it to be better than my brother-in-law's.
Gloria called me at three in the morning to say Dad had fallen, that he was fine, that the doctor had been called and that she would call again at seven. She did, at seven sharp.
I live in Chicago. Natalie gave me a video tour of Mom's suite on a Friday night with the piano playing in the background. I stopped worrying right there.
After my hip, I stayed five weeks in the respite suite and did therapy downstairs. I went home walking without a cane, and I'm on the waiting list for a Cabernet.
Mom has dementia in its early stages. The staff never rush her, never correct her in front of people and always save her seat by the window.
The concierge got us two seats on the GrapeFest wine train and a car to take us home after. I'm eighty-four. I felt thirty.
We have hosted three family birthdays in the private dining room. Rafael made my grandmother's pecan pie from her own recipe card.
The business office spent two afternoons helping us file Dad's long-term care insurance claim. It paid out in six weeks.
Stay for supper. We'll set a place.
Evening tours on Thursdays and Fridays, daytime tours six days a week. Call, text or book online and the concierge will meet you at the door.