Marcela Cortado and Beth Taylor founded Maximillian Home Health Services in 2006. Together they have more than 40 years of experience as nurses.
Throughout their nursing career in post-surgery, geriatric and intensive care, they found that a patient’s need for personal medical care did not end when they left the hospital. They started Maximillian Home Health Services to provide non-medical personal care and companionship for clients in the comfort of their homes.
Maximillian Home Health Services is an independently owned and operated company.
Marcela Cortado. Co-Founder, Maximillian Home Health Services.
Marcela Cortado has been a registered nurse (R.N.) at Watsonville Community Hospital since the 1982. In addition to being a nurse at WCH, Marcela has had extensive care experience in areas of post-surgery care and pediatrics.
Marcela has cared for elderly patients in various capacities, including working part-time at a nursing home from 1985 – 1990 and working with dozens of clients and their families with Maximillian since 2006.
Marcela is a longtime resident of Santa Cruz county and has extensive involvement with the community. She has served on volunteer committees at Salesian Sisters School, Holy Eucharist Church, St. Patrick’s Church, and Santa Cruz Loaves and Fishes. She has served as the President of the Filipino Community of Watsonville, a local community organization that promotes cultural activities and fundraises college scholarships for local high school students.
Maria Beth Taylor. Co-Founder, Maximillian Home Health Services.
Before Maria Beth moved to Aptos over 12 years ago, she resided in Las Vegas where she raised her two children. Her husband, Dr. Luis Taylor had an active practice in a few hospitals in Las Vegas. Upon moving to Aptos, she started working as the director of a nursing home facility in Capitola until it closed in 2018. Since she retired as a nurse, she has focused all of her time to Maximillian Home Health Services.
Maria Beth is also very active in the Filipino Community of Watsonville, a local community organization that promotes cultural activities and has played an integral part in fundraising college tuition scholarships for local high school students.