About Hazelbrook House
We started with one question: would we move our own mother here?
Come and see for yourself- the year the Marsh family opened our doors, with 40 suites
- 2009
- suites today, across four care levels and one roof
- 86
- small memory care households in The Orchard, opened in 2017
- 2
Our story
A family business, on purpose
Ruth and Alan Marsh spent two years looking for a place for Ruth's father. They found beautiful lobbies and confusing price sheets, and very few places where staff stayed long enough to learn his name. So they built one.
Hazelbrook opened in 2009 with 40 suites. The Orchard followed in 2017, after families kept asking us not to send their parents elsewhere when memory loss progressed. Their daughter now runs the board, and Helen Okafor runs the house.
How we work
Four things we will not trade away
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Tell families the truth
About care, about cost, and about whether we are the right fit. Even when the honest answer is no.
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Keep the day theirs
Wake-up times, meals and routines follow the person, not the staff schedule.
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03
Know the story
Every resident has a life-story profile. Staff read it before their first shift with someone new.
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Staff who stay
Fair pay, paid training and steady assignments. Familiar faces matter most to residents.
The people you will meet
The faces behind the care plan, the calendar and the soup.
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Helen Okafor
Executive director
Helen has worked in senior living for 18 years, starting as a care aide. She still eats lunch in the dining room most days.
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Priya Raman, RN
Director of care
Priya leads the nursing team and writes every care plan with families. She spent ten years in a hospital geriatric unit before joining us.
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Tomás Varga
Lead, The Orchard memory care
Tomás trains every new Orchard care partner. Ask him about the baking group. He will tell you about it for twenty minutes.
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Claire Dubois
Family advisor
Claire is the person who answers the phone and gives most of our tours. She helped move her own father into memory care in 2019.
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Marco Lindqvist
Head chef
Marco cooked in restaurants for 15 years. Now he plans menus with residents and still makes the soup from scratch.
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June Abernathy
Life enrichment director
June runs the calendar, the bus and the choir. She asks every new resident what they loved doing at 40, and builds from there.
Families do not need us to be perfect. They need us to tell them the truth, call when something changes, and treat their mother like she is still the most interesting person in the room. Because she is.
Plan a visit
Come for lunch. See it for yourself.
Tour in person and stay for lunch as our guest, or take a 30-minute video tour from wherever you are. No pressure, no sales pitch.
Hospital discharge or a fall this week? Call us. Claire will tell you honestly what we can do and how fast.
