Griswold is More Than Home Care
It’s Peace of Mind
At Griswold Home Care for Fargo, 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
Morgan Gilleland
Director
Morgan Gilleland is the Executive Director of Griswold Home Care for Fargo, ND - Moorhead, MN and the Surrounding Areas. Morgan runs the day to day operations, manages client/caregiver scheduling and personally interviews all of Griswold Home Care caregivers. She is passionate about the Senior care field, while it is challenging, she finds it extremely rewarding. Morgan is a CSA - Certified Senior Advisor and also a CBIS - Certified Brain Injury Specialist, she feels that learning is something that is done each and every day.
While attending college in Northwestern MN, she worked part-time as a companion caregiver for adults with mental disabilities. She found that just taking the client out for a walk or going to dinner made a difference. After graduation, Morgan moved back to the Grand Forks area and took a position as Deputy Sheriff for a large county in MN. Morgan later became a certified Crisis Intervention Team member by the National Alliance of Mental Intelligence. This focuses on how to speak with individuals who have conditions such as dementia or PTSD. Every day presented a different situation, calls to certain seniors homes ranged from help for confusion, to falls, safety checks on loved ones, but she noticed a consistent reoccurrence, there was always someone looking to have a cup of coffee and conversation. Morgan assisted where she could but saw the need for a more informed public, a need for knowledge of services available for in-home health care. She grasped at the idea of home health care as a business, its what she knew she wanted to do.
Josh Gilleland
Director
Josh Gilleland is the Director of operations for Griswold Home Care, servicing the Fargo, Moorhead and Surrounding Areas in Minnesota and North Dakota. Josh runs much of the behind the scenes operations that are necessary to keep Griswold running smoothly. He is responsible for the licensing, policies & procedures, support staff infrastructure, but also will be out in the field working with clients, doing new client intakes, and especially working with challenging situations to make sure clients can get the care they need in a safe and effective manner where ever they call home. Josh is a CSA - Certified Senior Advisor and also a CBIS - Certified Brain Injury Specialist, both of these disciplines and certifications are driven towards making Griswold better at serving their clients by providing training, insight and techniques so that Seniors and disabled adults can receive the best services possible with experienced and knowledgeable staff. Josh says his one true gift is empathy, the force that drives him to help others, to figure out the toughest of situations, to do what it takes to make sure someone can continue to live in their home, whether that is the home they grew up in or a senior living community they have called home for the last 5 years. Treating clients like they are one of his family members comes from that empathy; it is also a true Griswold Home Care mantra.
Josh relates his desire for the home health care field to being raised by his Grandparents for much of his youth. Josh saw them aging much faster than parents of his peers. After High School, Josh would move in with his Grandparents each summer to help them do daily activities most of us take for granted. When Josh’s Grandpa, better known to Josh as “Bapa,” lost his driver’s license due to Macular Degeneration, he was unable to get Josh’s Grandma, “Nana,” out of the house, and believed she began to decline from depression brought on by a lack of socialization. Not long after, Nana and Bapa were moved into a local nursing home; it was the only thing Josh and his family knew to do. Bapa felt the nursing home confined him and couldn’t do things he could at home. Looking back on his grandparents going into a nursing home, Josh knows, with a Caregiver’s assistance, they could have enjoyed those years in their own home. Josh is making it his goal through Griswold to let families know there are options. In-home care is what his grandparents needed, that little extra help with everyday activities could have allowed his grandparents to age in place and live out their days at home.
Josh is so excited to help seniors stay in their home, where ever that may be, with confidence and dignity.
Emily Johnson
Assistant Director
Emily has been employed in healthcare since 2002. Prior to joining Griswold Home Care, she held a position for the last 10 years at a local retirement community as a health care director. She is originally from Argyle, MN, a small rural town in northwestern Minnesota. Emily enjoys spending time with her 2 children (Matthew, 18 years; and Jocelyn, 4 years). Emily and her family have lived in the FM area for the last 19 years. Emily loves spending time with her 3 sisters with whom she is very close. Her parents are retired and live in Bemidji on the lake. When spare time is available, Emily enjoys spending time with friends and family, going to the lake, attending Matthew’s sporting events, cooking, gardening, and refinishing old furniture. Her passion has been in long term care since graduating from nursing college in 2004. Emily loves spending time with the clients she serves and is very passionate about providing top notch quality care to her clients and their loved ones.
Brittany Griffith
R.N.
Brittany grew up in Ashley ND and completed her college education at MSTATE, in Moorhead, MN. Brittany worked in both memory care and assisted living for 15 years as both a CNA and a nurse. Brittany has been a nurse for 12 years with past experience in long term care. In 2010, Brittany started her nursing career as an LPN and furthered her education in 2012 as an RN. Brittany Is married and has 3 young boys. In her spare time, she enjoys watching her boys play sports, going to the lake in the summer, and online shopping.
KayCee Evans
Human Resources Recruiting Specialist
KayCee is our Human Resources and Employee Relations Coordinator. She is responsible for recruiting and onboarding new Caregivers to our Care Team.
KayCee grew up in Las Vegas, NV and Billings, MT before moving to Fargo in 2014. KayCee worked as a CNA in both assisted living and in-home care for 5 years. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, painting and sketching, and spending time with her son, Carter.
Bethany Hagen
Office Coordinator
Bethany is responsible for our caregiver onboarding, and scheduling.
Bethany grew up in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and graduated from Detroit Lakes High School in 2017. Bethany started working as a CNA in 2016. She went to M-State in Detroit Lakes and graduated with a liberal arts associate degree in 2019. In Bethany’s spare time she likes to spend time with family and friends, read, and spend the days at the lake.
Merilyn Wilson
Caregiver Coordinator
Merilyn is from the FM area she graduated from Fargo North High in 1990. She is married has 6 children, and 2 grandchildren. She got her Medical Assistance degree in 1994 from Interstate Business College and went back and go her nursing degree in 2009 from MSCTC. She has experience working in Assisted Living Facilities. She has worked with clients with TBI and ID/DD. She enjoys spending time with her husband and children, going to Las Vegas to visit her grandsons, and making beaded jewelry.
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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