Griswold is More Than Home Care
It’s Peace of Mind
At Griswold Home Care for Tulsa, we offer compassionate in-home care for those who want support to live where they love. With over four decades of experience and a storied legacy of compassion and integrity, we focus on the people we meet and the connections we make right here in our own community. It is our privilege to support your unique needs with respect, empathy, and dedicated attention so you can Live Assured, without the weight of worry.
Griswold is an award-winning pioneer in the non-medical home care industry. We believe Care Professionals are the foundation of our success, and our commitment to innovation is based on our desire to improve the lives of everyone we touch as we serve this community. We focus on personal care, homemaking, companionship, and support for those with conditions, illnesses, or injuries.
Meet Your Team
Tommy & Dominique Oliver
Owner/Director, CSA
Tommy and Dominique are proud to be a part of the Griswold family. Tommy’s decision to quit his job in medical sales, after 13 years and numerous national awards, was due, in part, to the entrepreneurial spirit he’s always had.
It became a much more personal matter when two of his loved ones were in need of home care and their needs were met with differing degrees of quality. He knew that with Dominique’s help they could make a difference in people’s lives by referring caregivers to provide non-medical in-home care.
Dominique has a master’s degree in adult fitness and cardiac rehab and has been involved in the fitness/health care field since 1989. She is a clinical exercise physiologist and is also a certified home health aide.
With their combination of medical sales and health care experience, Tommy and Dominique stepped out in faith and joined the Griswold family in 2012. Both Tommy and Dominique are passionately involved in their children’s lives as well as the lives of other young men and women through their respective ministries, Influencerstulsa.org and GROW.
Their focus in owning and directing the Tulsa franchise of Griswold Home Care is much the same
Lara Hufford
Director of Operations
Lara specializes in developing teams that provide success in meeting the needs of both clients, families, and healthcare partners that we serve. Her 20+year career in healthcare has included Business Development in Rehabilitation Services, Skilled Nursing, Long Term Care, and Home Health Services. Her past expertise has included Facilitator and Administrator for the Title III grant funded programs that served the needs of older adults living in Tulsa, Creek, and Osage counties. She piloted an outreach grant that served the needs of older adults with extensive referral coordinator. Mrs. Hufford enjoys connecting individuals with the resources and services they need the most. “I enjoy providing clients with a continuum of care whether the goals are rehabilitative, chronic disease management, or end of life care,” states Lara. She joined the Griswold Home Care Team in 2017, after meeting owner Tommy Oliver, through there shared volunteer work at the American Parkinson’s Disease Association Oklahoma Chapter. She is most proud of her teams accomplishing national recognition with Home Care Pulse for their Best of Home Care in Leadership, Employer of Choice, and Provider of Choice for multiple years. Teams are the glue to great business, and leadership is the vehicle that grows great teams!
When Lara is not at the office she is volunteering, public speaking on health topics, bicycling in Tulsa Tough, or enjoying her family time with three children and a spouse of 25 plus years.
Favorite quote:
“True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decision.”
– Dave Ramsey Favorite “True
In Your Community
We’re in This Together
Our team is dedicated to improving the well-being of our community through serving those who need assistance to live where they love. We are active in the neighborhood, so you’ll see us around town at events, participating in associations and meetings, and supporting local organizations inside and outside the care industry. We firmly believe in our ability to create a happier and healthier place to live through the connections we make with the people in our community.
Jean’s Story
In 1982, Dr. Jean Griswold founded our company at her dining room table in a small suburb of Philadelphia. She found out that an elderly woman in her community had died of complications because she had no support system for care. Jean felt this was an easily preventable tragedy and was driven to find a solution by pairing Caregivers with those who could not thrive in their homes alone. She was a true visionary, establishing one of the first and most successful non-medical home care organizations in the country, despite being wheelchair-bound due to Multiple Sclerosis. Over 40 years later, her legacy lives on nationwide.
Scholarship
Where would we be without Caregivers? Their selflessness is astounding, yet they are often overlooked and underappreciated. The Jean Griswold Foundation is dedicated to supporting Caregivers, the backbone of the care industry. We provide educational scholarships so Care Professionals can further their training, enhance their skills, elevate their careers, and better assist the people they serve.
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