Griswold is More Than Home Care
It’s Peace of Mind
At Griswold Home Care for West Houston, 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
Brandon Harrison
Co-Owner/Director
Brandon Harrison is a Houston native and graduated from the University of Houston with a Business Administration Degree in Finance. He began his career in 2008 at Nextera Energy, where he worked for 4 years on a natural gas trading desk. During this time, Brandon earned experience in the natural gas market by scheduling and trading the commodity. In 2012, Brandon accepted a position as a natural gas scheduler with Dow Chemical. From there, he went on to occupy such roles as Business Development Manager, Asset Manager, Propane Trader, Natural Gas Trader and Power Trader. Brandon resigned from his role at Dow Chemical in March 2021 in order to help launch Griswold Home Care of West Houston.
Viking Dietrich
Co-Owner/Director
After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1989 with a BBA with an emphasis in Petroleum Land Management, Viking Dietrich began his career as an in-house landman with Phillips Petroleum Company. Viking later transitioned into a commercial role where he was responsible for marketing Phillips’ proprietary natural gas to large end users and utilities in the gulf coast and northeast United States. After leaving Phillips in 1995, Viking took on increasing levels of responsibility with several energy commodity focused companies including Vastar, Energy USA -TPC and Kimball Resources where Viking was responsible for the commercial success of the trading, marketing and operations of the various groups that he managed and directed. More recently, Viking has focused his career on all aspects of asset management in the energy space including deal origination, technical review, financial evaluation and optimization of physical assets for United Energy Trading and Mansfield Power & Gas. Viking left his role as Director – Midwest Marketing and Trading with Mansfield Power & Gas in August, 2020, seeking a more fulfilling career opportunity, ultimately deciding to open a Griswold Home Care franchise with his business partner, Brandon Harrison.
Yuri Penaloza
Lead Care Coordinator
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 West Houston 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.
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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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