Meet Our Senior Living Professionals at Summerhouse Bay Cove

Elizabeth Pond

Executive Director of Assisted Living & Memory Care

As Executive Director, Elizabeth Pond, has led this compassionate team since 2015. She oversees all community operations to ensure that residents receive the highest quality of person-centered assisted living and memory care. Elizabeth believes in focusing on what a resident can do rather than what they can’t, and trains her team to support and encourage residents, enabling them to reach their own highest potential and live their fullest life each day. Elizabeth chose her career path as the result of a true passion and calling for serving the elderly, and her natural ability to build strong relationships with residents and effectively and compassionately engage them in therapeutic care plans make Elizabeth’s guidance a vitally important aspect of the exceptional senior living offered at our community.

Earl “Ray” Parrish

Director of Culinary

Ray Parrish is a self-taught Chef who started his culinary career washing dishes. It didn’t take long for natural curiosity to become a drive to learn. It started simply and became more of challenge to satisfy a need to excel. It had taken 30 plus years to go from that simple beginning to becoming an Executive Chef for a multimillion-dollar Restaurant/Banquet facility in Diamondhead, Ms. from that he became an Exec. Chef at Hilton properties for two years. These accomplishments were made without any formal training other than a sense of self determination and work ethic that still holds true after these many years.