2929 Calle Vera Cruz
Santa Fe, New Mexico
(505) 474-8031
The most recent addition to our Vista Living Care homes is our small and cozy bungalow located in historical Santa Fe with the perfect setting for our innovative, nonclinical approach to elder care. Vista Hermosa specializes in helping frail, non- to mild-dementia residents needing day-to-day care and reminders. Our team of professionals creates an intentional, welcoming environment and an insurmountable love for the 14 elders inside.
Now offering experienced, loving care
in the comfort of your own home!
Our small home excels at creating a nurturing, joyful place for elders to have the help they need to thrive each day.
Our small home excels at creating a nurturing, joyful place for elders to have the help they need to thrive each day. Vista Hermosa is able to embrace clinical care for frail elders, provide exceptional palliative care while being a home where life is well lived. We are able to meet elders where they are as individuals at all phases of life. Our elders laugh, cook, dance, and are loved.
You could be greeted by two very happy dogs, many live houseplants, chirping birds, fat goldfish, happy elders, and smiling staff. Vista Hermosa is the house that intention, love, and commitment built.
PEOPLE care for people.
Vista Hermosa embraces clinical care for frail elders and provides exceptional palliative care while being a home where life is well lived.
Our peaceful home provides Elders an environment to enjoy the simple daily pleasures of life, including the beauty of our solarium, where they practice potting while listening to the music of our Cockatiel, Lucy. Our Art Studio provides opportunity for them to draw, paint and mold clay on our potters wheel. Annually, our elders jump into spring by welcoming chicks and ducklings. Everyone loves the peeps of a baby chick and quacks of a duckling!
Regularly scheduled outings to interesting places in the community, as well as quarterly gatherings promoting quality time with family, other residents, and staff, are just the beginning of the activities that revolve around the needs of those with memory loss. Entertainment often includes games, sing-a-longs, dancing, and musical presentations. Birthdays and holidays are always a priority at the Arbors.
We were crafted virtually by heart, and we are invested with a level of integrity that truly is rare. At the Arbors we focus on each elder’s abilities, not disabilities, and our home is the perfect alternative to clinical, hotel-like complexes. Our research and solid history have proven if an elder with dementia is unable to function at home, they are likely not able to function independently, even with minimal care, in an apartment setting.
Outside we have the barn and our elders love helping take care of the goats and chickens.
Amanda Aragon
Executive Director
NMHCA Best of the Best
2021 Administrator of the Year
Amanda lives in a small town called Velarde which is located in Northern New Mexico. She enjoys spending my time with her husband Arturo, stepson Angel who is 11 years old and her daughter Analicia who is 2 years old. A couple of hobbies that she enjoys are camping with her loved ones and playing with her kids. She has worked with the elderly community since she was 18 years old and cannot imagine herself doing anything else. She believes our elders are our roots that have helped pave our future and that we owe it to our elders to care for them. She aspires to become a good leader and to strive to do her best to ensure the happiness of our elders, staff, and families at Vista Hermosa.
Dolores Avalos
Assistant Executive Director
NMHCA Best of the Best
2021 Finalist
Dolores, also known as Lolis originated in Mexico, where her humble family worked their way to a better future. She moved to Santa Fe, NM at the age of seven, where she grew up and continues to live today. Dolores graduated high school in 2017, and then went on to receive a phlebotomy certification and become a Licensed Nursing Assistant. She is currently in the process of becoming a licensed nurse, where she can put her years of experience in the health field to good use. She enjoys spending time with her family - they mean everything to her. She also enjoys nature and any form of community service. She considers herself a kind, hard-working person, who is dedicated and determined to help others.
Brenda Zamarron
Medical Assistant
I was raised in Mexico, where my parents would worked the fields to try and give us better future. I moved to Santa Fe, NM at the age of eight, where I grew up and today still continue to live here. I graduated from Capital High School in 2016. I am currently going to school to become a licensed nurse. I enjoy spending time with my family. They are my whole world. I also enjoy listening to music and drawing.
Dandy Mendez
Dietary Director and Kitchen Manager
Originally from Mexico, Dandy graduated from the Nursing school Lic Benito Juarez where she obtained the title of General Nurse. She later specialized to get her Nursing Degree from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. At the age of 28 she moved to New Mexcio. Dandy is independent, responsible, hard-working and loving. She utilizes all of these personal and professional skills to help care for elders living with Dementia. Dandy pours her heart into the meals she prepares focusing on quality nutrition, taste and presentaiton. She is a family person who thanks God for her life and Family, parents, brothers and husband and is appreciative for the the unconditional love and support.
Lynette Romero
Nurse
Lynette was born and raised in Santa Fe. She got her nursing degree in 2002. Since she was a little girl, she knew her calling was to help others. She moved away to Arizona and California. She did many areas of nursing from ICU, med-surg, hospice, home health and long-term nursing. She is extremely family oriented, and when her grandmother, who was like her second mother, got dementia she stopped working to care for her. By this time she had already moved back to Santa Fe and realized Santa Fe was "home". During this time, she got a true understanding of what dementia really was. She realized that dementia was a family disease. After her grandma passed at 98yrs old she realized what her real calling was—not just nursing, but working with the dementia community. She loves working for Vista living and treats all elders as if they were her family and they really have become her second family. She is currently enrolled in a wound care course to become wound certified. She educates herself daily on how to be a better nurse and friend for the elders.
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