About Maynord’s Recovery Center
“Addiction is the only disease known to man that we know we can put into remission. There is no shame in having this disease, and there is no shame in getting treatment.” -Joan Maynord
Maynord’s Recovery Center’ treatment program is covered by many insurance plans and employee assistance programs. We also give a great reduction in price to cash paying clients. The residential program embraces the principles of 12-step recovery with addiction treatment. Maynord’s attracts clients from several states including: California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and more recently the East Coast.
Maynord’s Recovery center is a family owned business. Joan and Bob Maynord created a legacy. The family carries on the mission and currently includes daughters Shana, Sue and granddaughter Alyson. They all work together to continually improve quality of service and to focus on the individual needs of the persons they serve. Maynord’s recognizes that addiction is a family disease and offers a day of treatment for family members to learn about the disease of addiction and their own recovery.
Joan Maynord and her husband Bob Maynord, both recovering alcoholics, founded Maynord’s Ranch. Bob had been a minister and the two met at a Southern California bar. Alcohol cost him his pulpit, though he did not realize it at the time. “He knew something was wrong, but was not sure what,” Joan said. As for herself, she thought he was the real alcoholic. When Bob went into treatment to start his recovery, Joan also quit drinking “to be supportive.”
“After I thought he was sober enough, I decided to drink again. I was out of control in three months, and was able to stop once again and get back on track,” Joan said.
After losing his position as a minister, he began to volunteer at the former Alcohol Information Center in Tuolumne County, while Joan was a successful real estate broker. All their skills came into play when the Ranch opened on Cherokee Road near Tuolumne in August of 1978 with beds for 12 clients. Joan and Bob took on all the work from cooking to counseling to cleaning to keeping up with the acreage and more. Two separate purchases have brought the property to now 22 acres. This recovery oasis is placed on rolling acreage with a pond, a 100-plus-year-old barn, and a handful of animals which Joan believed were an important part of the recovery program.
Joan said she has always wanted to do something to help people. How she would eventually do that was determined by her own recovery but also by her childhood. She spent a year and a half in an orphanage that was “sterile and distant,” she said. “I wanted to help others, but I wanted to do it in a different way, in a more homelike atmosphere,” a comfortable and safe place to do some serious work. Along with the original ranch house and barn, Maynord’s Recovery Center now has a classroom learning center, business office, expanded dining room and new kitchen, 30 beds, counselors’ offices and a separate building where counselors can meet with families or where staff members can eat lunch. “What people often do not understand,” she said, “is that recovery is different for everyone. For some, relapse is part of the process… Cancer treatment does not necessarily work the first time.”
Maynord’s Recovery Center is proud to be a CARF accredited program.
CARF International is an independent, nonprofit accreditor of health and human services organizations. CARF accreditation requires a service provider to continually improve quality of service and to focus on the individual needs of the persons they serve. Maynord’s Recovery Center has been CARF accredited since 1991. CARF’s mission is to promote the quality, value and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. We put ourselves through a rigorous peer review process and have demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable. Maynord’s has currently been accredited for 22 years by CARF, and by pursuing and achieving accreditation, Maynord’s has demonstrated that it meets the international standards for quality and is committed to pursuing excellence.
