Our Family

Amy Clark, MSSW, LCSW

Executive Director

Amy graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Work. She went on to the University of Louisville to complete her graduate studies, earning a Master of Science in Social Work in 2004. She then passed her Certification of Social Work (CSW) before completing her LCSW in 2008.

Since then, Amy has gained a significant amount of experience in the field of geriatrics. She worked at Our Lady of Peace for nine and a half years. For seven of those years, she worked as an Inpatient Social Worker/Psychotherapist on the Peace Geriatric Treatment Services unit. During that time, she provided group, individual, and family therapy, assisted patients and families with case management and discharge planning, as well as coordinated aftercare with a variety of community resources. Amy also worked at Amedisys, Inc./Home Health Services as both a Medical Social Worker and Chronic Care Coordinator for two years. Through that time, she counseled patients and families with health-related financial, social, and emotional concerns, as well as assisting patients to achieve and maintain a level of health and independence, which prevented avoidable hospitalizations.

Amy is an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville/Kent School of Social Work. She instructs a graduate-level course, “Social Work Practice with Older Adults,” teaching assessments that are commonly used with older adults in the areas of physical and mental health, social support and participation, and assessments of home environments. She also teaches the students how to formulate service plans, outcome measures and objectives based on the comprehensive geriatric assessments; as well as specific practices and approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, Evidence-Based Practice, and Strengths-Based Approaches, Narrative Therapy and Cognitive Therapy.

Amy is a member of the Barton House family and continues to carry on the heritage of high-quality care that Barton House is known for.

Martha McMahel

Director of Nursing

Martha is a Licensed Nurse with over thirteen years of nursing experience. She received her nursing license in 2004 from Galen School of Nursing in Louisville, KY. Her nursing background comes from years of service in the geriatric field and healthcare management. Martha joined the Barton House team in December 2015 as a nurse and moved into the Director of Nursing position in August 2017. She takes pride in the quality of care that Barton House is known for. Martha is well known in her career as a team builder and brings the positive out in any situation.

While Martha’s main passion is nursing, on her days off, she enjoys spending time with her grandson, family, and loves to travel. Martha feels some people choose their careers for money or prestige, but she would like to believe that she was one of those lucky people born into their calling to be a nurse.

Tracy Wachtel Lattis

Activities Director

Tracy went to Georgetown College on a volleyball scholarship and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing & finance with a minor in Psychology.  She worked in Management and Marketing for 10 years before staying at home to care for her children.  She was very involved in the parent’s association for their school serving as President for many years.  She also served on the board of The Francis Parker School of Louisville for several years. In 2019 as empty nesting approached, she prayed to figure out her next journey.  At this time, she was also helping to care for her father in law who eventually moved into the Barton House.  She started out volunteering at the Barton House which then progressed to taking a position of activity assistant and eventually she became the activity director.  Her prayers were answered, and this was the perfect fit.  She brings to the Barton House many games, intellectual stimulation, activities (modified for the residents), and fun which she learned from years of working with her own children and countless hours at their school. During covid she set up group text for each family to share daily activities including pictures and videos sent each week to the families.  She also encouraged families to send videos back where they are shown on the big TV in the family room every Monday night for Family Movie night.  As restrictions lifted, she realized that many family members lived out of town, so she continued this weekly communication so the families could keep up to date with their family member. In her spare time, Tracy likes to play tennis, hike, and spend time with her family.

Justin Mullis

Director of Maintenance

Born and raised in Gray, Ga, and moved to Louisville, Ky in 2019. Justin’s experience comes from 14 years employed with the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft mechanic. As a maintenance director, Justin’s scope encompasses a broad spectrum of services, competencies, processes, and tools required to assure the built environment will perform the functions for which Barton House was designed. In his spare time, Justin enjoys spending time with family, running, and continuing his education at Middle Georgia State University.

George Maye

Dietary Manager & Chef

George was born and raised in Louisville, Ky. He found his passion for cooking as a young man and studied under Chef Jimmy Gherardi from “Everybody’s Cooking” in Cincinnati. George helped open several restaurants in Louisville, spearheading the training and development of employees. In 1996, George joined Jewish Hospital as Executive Sous Chef and worked there for 18 years. He specialized in Kosher and Heart Healthy cuisine, serving as the personal chef for one of the first recipients of the AbioCor self contained artificial heart. He went on to lead successful teams at Aramark, Morrison/Compass, and Sodexo. George has appeared on several tv shows to showcase Heart Healthy and diabetes friendly meals, and also helped launch the Soul Food cookbook for heart disease. George joined the Barton House family in 2019 as Dietary Manager. He has a special connection to Barton House, as his mother and aunts had Alzheimer’s. He sees working at Barton House as his way of giving the residents the kind of care he wanted his mom to have.