Chaplain Alden J. Thibeau was born and raised in Levant, Maine. In 1969 he graduated as salutatorian of his class from Faith School of Theology, Brookline, Maine.  For many years he taught Sunday school classes from 6^th grade to senior adults as well as teaching Bible Studies in two large churches.  He was an associate pastor to seniors as well as a volunteer for many years.  Employed since 2005 chaplain Alden serves full time at Crystal Care Centers.  His first love has always been to help the elderly.  He and his wonderful wife and helpmate Glenda minister regularly at our Centers.  They also put on seminars to train others to minister in long-term care facilities.  For more information on upcoming seminars please call Chaplain Thibeau at 419-747-2666 or 419-281-9595.

At Crystal Care Center we surround our resident with love, kindness and laughter.  Our Chaplain program has helped us achieve this goal. Crystal Care Centers are the only private owned facilities in the area to employee a full time chaplain to care for the spiritual needs our residents, families and staff.

Crystal Care Center of Ashland: 

    Jeanne Demyan has been a nursing home administrator for over 20 years.  She began her career with a family owned group that had 5 nursing homes in Ohio, working with them for 10 years.   After moving back to her hometown of Ashland from the Kent, Ohio area, Jeanne joined the staff as administrator at Crystal Care Center of Mansfield in 1996 and then transferred to our Ashland facility. 

    Jeanne is VP of Operations for Crystal Care Centers and serves on a daily basis as administrator at the Ashland facility.   “This is a rewarding career, both in providing care for the elderly and those who need assistance but also in being able to give help and guidance to employees and promote them to better themselves,” states Jeanne.

Jeanne lives in Ashland with her Chihuahuas.  She enjoys showing at dog shows in Ohio and Kentucky, and breeding and raising puppies.  Jeanne has two daughters, one in Pataskala, Ohio, and one in Huntsville, Alabama.

 Crystal Care Center of Mansfield:     Tiffany Behrendsen is the Director of Nursing at Crystal Care Center of Mansfield and has been employed with us for 13 years.  Tiffany graduated from Med Central school of Nursing in 1994 with her RN degree and in 1999 obtained her Bachelors degree in nursing from Ashland University.  Tiffany has worked for over 20 years in the healthcare field.  She admits that her goal in life is to provide her residents and her staff a high quality place to call home and work.  Tiffany decided to obtain her Nursing Home Administrators license in 2004.  Tiffany stated “it’s important to care for our residents like they are our family”.  In 2004 another dream of improving health care for seniors was made possible under the careful guidance of friend and mentor Jerry Smith, LNHA and owner of Crystal Care Centers.  Tiffany was able to open Companions of Ashland HomeCare and Nurse Aide Training center.  Her home care company helps work with patients still in their homes and the training center helps bring new people into the healthcare field.  Tiffany loves to mentor new staff and share her knowledge of long term care.  Tiffany’s proudest career moment was watching her 17 yr old son graduate from nurse aide classes and begin working in long term care right by her side.  Tiffany lives in Ashland with her 2 sons and enjoys all outdoors activities.  If you need more information about all of the opportunities in long-term care call her personally at 419-606-5176.