meet our leadership team
ameriCARE Texas is guided by a team of dedicated, thoughtful leaders with real world experience in medicine and caring for their own family members. Our leadership team is focused on ensuring each of our clients receive the meaningful, well-rounded care they deserve by bringing innovative ideas, sound planning, and cutting-edge tech to each of our locations throughout Texas.
Marty Baylor, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
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Marty Baylor, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
My name is Marty Baylor. I wasn’t born in Texas but as the old saying goes…I got here as fast as I could. I was born and raised in a small farming community in central Illinois called Farmington. Population of about 3,000 people and a fairly tight-knit community. I received my bachelor of science degree in accounting from Illinois State University in 1985. I met my future wife, Kelly, my first day of college and we have been together ever since. After college, Kelly and I married and moved to Texas. I started working for the University of Texas at Dallas and we had our one and only child, Ashley, in 1987.
I continued working for various institutions under The University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System in business administration for the next 31 years of my career. I started in internal auditing and moved into student registration, financial accounting and finally an Executive Vice President for Finance/Chief Financial Officer for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. I was able to gain excellent work experiences while moving up the work ladder and got to know many wonderful people in the process. Many of which continue to be close friends.
Early life changed quickly when Kelly suffered a major stroke and spent the two months after Ashley’s second birthday recovering in the hospital and rehabilitation facilities. This was a huge shock to our family life. After five or so years of recovery, Kelly was finally able to go back to work only to suffer another major stroke years later. This was another great set back for Kelly and our family. She was never able to return to work after this second event. While recovering from her second stroke, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After surgery and months of treatment, she was able to beat her cancer diagnosis. It wasn’t her final health battle, but she has successfully overcome many serious health issues over our 34 years together. These years of helping Kelly deal with the myriad of health issues has had a profound effect on our lives.
After retiring in August of 2016, we moved to Fort Worth to be close to our daughter and her family. Ashley had married Clayton Smith in 2012 and they had three children. Hudson born in 2013, the twins, Cooper and Beau, born in 2016 and a little girl due in July. Over the past several years, we have help care for the boys and hang out as much as possible. It has been very cool to be a part of the kids lives on a daily basis.
Clayton and I have spoken often of partnering in a business venture. It makes complete and total sense that we would end up starting a Home Care/Personal Assistance Service business. My years of experience as a caregiver for my wife has made a complete circle as we begin to create a caregiving environment for families in our community. We are very excited about ameriCARE Fort Worth and look forward to helping families in north Texas care for their families as we care for ours.
Dr. Rohith Saravanan, MD MBA
Executive Chairman
Board Certified in Family Medicine
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Dr. Rohith Saravanan, MD MBA
Executive Chairman
Board Certified in Family Medicine
Hello! I’m Dr. Saravanan, a physician and entrepreneur with over 15 years of broad experience across the healthcare industry. As part of the ameriCARE Texas leadership team, I work to bring innovative ideas to our care model and find new ways to help improve the standard of in-home care throughout Texas. But I also work closely with our care team, reviewing care plans for each of our clients and hosting weekly care reviews with our caregivers to discuss changes in condition and next steps. Whether working on big picture goals or speaking one-on-one with our caregivers, my goal is to always serve our clients.
Clayton Smith, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Certified Dementia Practitioner
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Clayton Smith, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Certified Dementia Practitioner
My name is Clayton Smith, and I have lived in North Texas for the past 15 years. My wife, Ashley, and I have three boys (including twins), and a baby girl.
For most of my life, I have watched someone in my family take on the caregiver role to allow a family member to stay in the home where they were the most comfortable. My great grandmother for my great grandfather…then my grandmother for my great grandmother, and my mom and aunts for my grandfather & grandmother. I have seen first-hand how having our loved one’s age at home brings happiness and peace to what can be a stressful, and anxious time in life. This understanding along with Marty’s extensive personal experience with caregiving, played a large role into our family’s decision to found our own family-owned & operated in-home care agency with ameriCARE.
My goal is to be an extension of the family care team by providing high-quality home care for times when family isn’t able to provide all the care needed for their loved ones. Doing so by creating a joyful and safe home environment, where the happiness and comfort of our clients is our top priority.
Before founding ameriCARE Fort Worth, I served the warfighter and taxpayer as an Auditor & Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for the Department of Defense at multiple major defense contractors in Fort Worth. I have always been drawn to efforts that have a great mission behind it and can’t be more proud to carry out the mission to provide care for others.
I personally believe a big part of a person’s purpose is to be of use to others. I’m excited that part of my purpose will be serving the North Texas community with a service that has such a positive impact in the lives of families, and their loved ones.
meet our administrative CARE team
Ashley Smith, M. Ed
Administrator, Fort Worth
Certified Dementia Practitioner
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Ashley Smith, M. Ed
Administrator, Fort Worth
Certified Dementia Practitioner
This is a true family business that my dad, Marty, and husband, Clayton, have started to build. It is no surprise they have chosen to pursue an in-home care business in our Fort Worth community, as care has been at the forefront of much of our lives. Kelly, my mom, was a young stroke survivor, among many other health complications throughout her life. I have grown up witnessing and taking part in the caregiver role. I have also been alongside to watch the incredible transformation stroke survivors can experience with the right care, support, and therapies. Our experience drove us to create our Stroke Strong program, a program that is tailored to the specific needs of stroke survivors.
My mom dedicated her working years to children, as a special education teacher. I followed in her footsteps, also becoming a teacher, and earning my master’s degree in Special Education. I have taught general education, special education, & home bound students in my career. Prior to joining ameriCARE full time, I worked as an Educational Diagnostician advocating for students with disabilities in Northwest ISD. I am looking forward to continuing to use my skills to care and advocate, just for a different generation of people.
I am excited to see both my dad and my husband use their incredible compassion, empathy, and eye for detail in providing care for families in our community.
Latina Cho
Director of Operations, Fort Worth
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Latina Cho
Director of Operations, Fort Worth
My professional background is in business operations, specifically in grocery stores and drug stores. I worked as a Store Manager for CVS for over 5 years until my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Faced with some tough decisions, I decided to leave my career with CVS to become my husband’s full-time caregiver. Seven years later, my husband passed away. When re-entering the workforce, I looked for an opportunity where I might be able to help other family caregivers that were experiencing the tough job of caring for a loved-one with dementia. That is when I started my career in the non-medical home care field. I became a caregiver first where I provided direct care and companionship to older adults. After serving as a caregiver, I was promoted to the leadership team in 2013 returning to supervisory and administrative roles. I have been involved in scheduling, billing, care coordination, and business development since then.
I am currently the Director of Operations for ameriCARE Texas in Fort Worth where I wear many hats and help the business run effectively. I assist with client and caregiver scheduling, hiring, business development, and other office duties. I love my job! With my experience as a caregiver and the widow of an Alzheimer’s patient, I have the unique position of knowing how it feels to be a family caregiver, client of home care services, and a professional caregiver. I truly empathize with our clients and their families, and I am so grateful to be able to assist them get the services they need to be more independent and happier at home, wherever they call home.
Robert & Christina Ybarra
Owners, Weatherford
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Robert & Christina Ybarra
Owners, Weatherford
Well, I’m Robert. I consider myself a Texan, though I was born in Colorado. My dad was born and raised in Dallas, and his parents were born in Kaufman, TX. I got cheated because my father was serving in the Army when I was born. In the end I let him off the hook for serving our country. Hopefully you will let me off the hook too and consider me a fellow Texan. I’ve lived throughout the DFW area since kindergarten. Texas is home!
My wife Christina is from Indianapolis and has been in Texas since 2010. She loves her cowboy boots and the warmer weather (yes, I know it gets too HOT around here but not for her). We were married in our church in Keller and have two sons. We now live in Weatherford on 5 acres with our goats, donkeys, chickens, cow and Great Pyrenees.
We started ameriCARE Weatherford for one main reason: you and your loved ones! My personal experiences come from having watched family members become frustrated and unhappy with their caregivers or vice versa time and time again. “How can we fix this or make it better”, I would often think. No one needs to be frustrated or upset, especially in these situations. How can we make changes that impact our community and those who need help in an incredibly positive way? How can we get our boots muddy without waiting for someone else (or the government) to do it? Thank you ameriCARE for being those special boots we are mudding up!
The other reason is our care specialists. We see them as an integral part of our community and operation. We believe education, encouragement, and thinking about their overall wellness will in turn, allow them to provide the utmost level of care to you and your loved ones. The last thing we want is for you to receive care from a stressed, burnout caregiver. You and your loved ones are too important! Our care specialists are too important!
Well, that’s us. Although the writeup is too lengthy for my taste, we can’t just say we are here to help take care of fellow Texans, and leave it at that, can we?
Anyway, y’all reach out to us directly if you want to chat more. We can’t wait to care for you!
God bless Texas! God bless America! And don’t forget to slow down, check in on your neighbor, and give them that extra caring hand, because Texans care for Texans.
let’s make a care plan TOGETHER
We offer a no-obligation, free care assessment to help you create plan that meets the unique needs of your family. Whether you need post-operative support, respite care, or companion care, our team of compassionate and reliable caregivers is standing by to help.