Our Story · Houston Galleria

Forty-five years of caring for people at home.

Choosing care for your mother or father means trusting someone with the person who raised you. For forty-five years, earning that trust has been the entire point of Homewatch CareGivers, and it is how a small idea from 1980 grew into the team that looks after Houston families today.

Est. 1980 · DenverHouston since 2017Family owned & operated
Paul Sauer, founder of Homewatch CareGivers, holding the original Homewatch sign in 1980
Paul Sauer, founder of Homewatch CareGivers, 1980.
The origin Denver, Colorado

It began with a simple conviction.

Homewatch CareGivers began in 1980, when Paul Sauer founded it in Denver, Colorado, on a simple belief: that people growing older, or recovering at home, deserved professional, dependable care delivered with genuine respect.

He built it around what became the company’s enduring principle, person-centered care: care shaped around the individual, their routines, and their dignity, rather than forcing the person to fit the system. More than forty years later, that conviction is still the first thing every Homewatch agency inherits, including ours in Houston.

“I worked in this business until I was seventy-two. That’s how much I loved it, and I still do.”

Sam & Ellen Moreton, who opened the Houston Galleria agency in 2017. Tap to hear from them.
A Houston chapter Houston, Texas

Sam & Ellen brought it home to Houston.

In 2017, Sam and Ellen Moreton opened Homewatch CareGivers of Houston Galleria. A multigenerational Houston family who came to home care after caring for their own aging relatives, they built the agency around a personal approach and real attention to detail.

It worked. They grew the team to roughly 100 caregivers and, by the time they retired in 2024, had earned what few agencies ever do: ranked No. 1 in Houston and No. 7 in the United States.

“We’ve done a lot of things in my life, but I’ve never done anything as rewarding as this one. We change people’s lives.”

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A new generation Houston Galleria

Andrew & Serhat carried it forward, and further.

In December 2024, the agency passed to two Houstonians with very different backgrounds and one shared standard: Andrew Harris, a former Neuro ICU nurse at Houston Methodist, and Serhat Bolukbasi, a former BCG principal. For families, nothing changed, the same caregivers, the same office team, the same care plans. What changed was what stood behind them.

Their promise was simple: protect what was working, and elevate what was possible. Andrew brought the clinical backbone, putting nurse-supervised oversight on every care plan and deepening the agency’s expertise in dementia and Alzheimer’s care. Serhat brought the operating discipline that keeps care dependable and responsive as the team has grown past 200 caregivers.

Both are hands-on, long-term owner-operators, reachable directly, and raising their own families in the same city they serve. Each came to this work for personal reasons, which they tell in their own stories.

“It’s the relationships that matter most. We know every client, their family, even their pets, and that’s what makes our care feel like family.”

What never changes

Forty-five years. One promise.

Different chapters, the same standard. These are the constants families have felt since 1980, and the things we protect as carefully as we grow.

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Care shaped around the person

Paul Sauer’s founding idea, person-centered care, still decides how every plan is built. The person comes first; the routine bends to them.

ii.

Personalized, premium service

The standard Sam and Ellen set, treating every family like their own, is the bar we hold ourselves to as we grow.

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Now, supervised by nurses

Today every care plan is overseen by experienced nurses, with a clinical depth in dementia and Alzheimer’s that few agencies can match.

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