About the Assisted Living Team
Ashley Durkin - Primary Care Physician
Ashley Durkin is the primary house call practitioner in Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Kingwood and Humble for the Geriatric and Hospice Medical Services (GHMS). This job includes medical supervision of two GHMS employees. She has worked in a medical supervisory capacity since 2000 with multiple GHMS employees such as medical assistants, nurse’s aids and nurses. Her duties include direct patient care, diagnosing, treating, reviewing labs, ordering tests, writing prescriptions, taking call, coordinating care plan oversight with home health nursing staff as well as preparing coding and billing for Medicare patients.
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Charis Snider - Registered Nurse
Charis Snider is a Registered Nurse who serves the residents in Spring and The Woodlands, Texas. She has been an R.N. since 2006 and has specialized her practice in adult critical care, pediatric critical care, home health and hospice. She continues her healthcare education at The University of Texas Arlington campus and volunteers locally for several organizations including The American Red Cross, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and The American Heart Association. Her job duties include direct patient care, medication management, education and training for caregivers and coordination of care with families, nurses, caregivers and physicians to provide our residents with the best care possible.
Michelle Gast – LVN, Kingwood Cottage
Michelle Gast is an LVN that serves the residents at our Kingwood Assisted Living Cottage. She started out as a CNA and then was a Medical Assistant. She advanced her career and became an LVN and has been working as a nurse in geriatrics for four years now. Because of her passion for nursing, she continues to further her education at Kingwood College. Michelle also works part time with a Physician’s Assistant who specializes in geriatrics. Her primary roles at our personal care cottages include routine assessments, educating and training staff members, medication management and coordinating care of our residents between staff, family members, residents, home health care nurses and physicians. Communication is a key role in providing the best home health care possible for our residents.
Katie – Volunteer
Katie was born and raised in Indianapolis, IN. She met her husband Bob while attending Purdue University, and they have been married almost 34 years. They have two children, Mark and Amy, who are grown and on their own. Katie and Bob moved to Spring, Texas eight years ago, and are active in the Woodlands United Methodist Church. She is involved in two Bible Studies, has been on several mission trips and volunteers at Interfaith of the Woodlands for the Food Pantry and the Senior’s Ministry.
A few months ago, Katie was introduced to the Unlimited Care family on Budde Road. She now stops by once or twice a week, and it has truly blessed her! She visits with the ladies and the caregivers, and has come to love each and every one of them! Katie also had an opportunity to participate in a Sit n Fit class with some of her new friends at Unlimited Care, and it has been a true joy! Her time with the staff and residents there is time that she truly looks forward to each week.
Pamela Haynie – Volunteer
Pamela Haynie is a graduate of Sam Houston State University and has earned a Bachelor Degree in Music Therapy in August of 1992. Mrs. Haynie also attended The University of Texas at Arlington and Southeastern Oklahoma State University where she completed her core music curriculum.
Mrs. Haynie began working with seniors in a healthcare environment in 1992 as an Activity Director after her graduation and began to target the need for musical reminiscence within the senior healthcare environment. It was during this time she composed a song (“The Nursing Homes Blues”) for her residents to help them express themselves and their grievances after a Resident Council meeting prior to a State audit in 1992. She began to market and present her ideas to other facilities and, as a result of her efforts, soon opened her own Music Therapy practice (Medicine Music Productions) in 1993.
Mrs. Haynie has participated in Memory Walks for the Alzheimer’s Association and has been on the steering committee for the Senior Games of The Woodlands for the past several years. Pamela now has an extensive list of clientele in nursing homes, adult day care facilities, personal care homes, rehabilitation hospitals, independent and assisted living residences as well as Alzheimer communities all over the greater Houston area and beyond.
We serve residents in Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, and Kingwood Texas. We will consistently exceed our residents, families and referral sources expectations for care, cleanliness, comfort and contentment. Our goal is to set the standards in assisted living.
honoring the wisdom and strength of our greatest generationPlease contact or call Terri at 713.419.2609 or send us an email to allow us to introduce you to our home health care at Unlimited Care Assisted Living Cottages.