North Carolina Assisted Living and Senior Care Resource

The third most populated state in the Southeast has the second most nursing homes and assisted living communities in the region. Yet North Carolina’s biggest city, Charlotte, has only one nursing home that Medicare rates five stars overall, as of this writing. Statewide, 17 percent of North Carolina’s nursing homes boast that rating. The national average is 18 percent.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 422
• Assisted living residences: 1,307*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living residences (including adult care homes and multi-unit assisted housing with services)
• Residential care homes (family care homes)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $50 per day
• Home care: $17 per hour
• Home health-care: $19 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 3,203 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $189 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $209 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Division of Aging and Adult Services: congregate nutrition
• Adult care licensure
• “Licensing of Homes for the Aged and Infirm”
• Division of Health Service Regulation: rules and regulations

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-662-7030
• In nursing homes: 1-800-662-7030

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

•  Charlotte
•  Raleigh
•  Greensboro
•  Durham
•  Winston-Salem
•  Fayetteville
•  Cary
•  High Point
•  Wilmington
• Asheville

 

Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***

 

Albemarle
Stanly Manor

 

Asheboro
Clapps Convalescent Nursing Home

 

Asheville
Aston Park Health Care Center

 

Black Mountain
Black Mountain Neuro-Medical Treatment Center
Mountain Ridge Wellness Center

 

Brevard
Transylvania Regional Hospital

 

Burgaw
Huntington Health Care

 

Burlington
Twin Lakes Community
Twin Lakes Community Memory Care

 

Cary
Glenaire

 

Chapel Hill
Carol Woods
The Cedars of Chapel Hill

 

Charlotte
The Stewart Health Center

 

Colfax
River Landing at Sandy Ridge

 

Columbus
Willowbrooke Court Skilled Care Center at Tryon Estates

 

Concord
The Gardens of Taylor Glen Retirement Community

 

Connelly Springs
Carolina Rehab Center of Burke

 

Drexel
Autumn Care of Drexel

 

Durham
Grace Healthcare of Durham
Hillcrest Convalescent Center
Pettigrew Rehabilitation and Healthcare
The Forest at Duke

 

Edenton
Chowan Hospital – Skilled Nursing Facility

 

Elkin
Heritage Healthcare of Elkin
Hugh Chatham Memorial Nursing

 

Goldsboro
O’berry Neuro-Medical Treatment Center

 

Grantsboro
Grantsbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Greensboro
Friends Homes at Guilford
Friends Homes West
Heartland Living & Rehab at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Whitestone A. Masonic and Eastern Star Community

 

Greenville
Cypress Glen Retirement Community

 

Hampstead
Woodbury Wellness Center

 

Harrisburg
The Oaks at Town Center

 

Hendersonville
Brian Center Health & Rehab – Hendersonville
Carolina Village

 

Hickory
Lutheran Home – Hickory

 

High Point
Maryfield Nursing Home
Westchester Manor at Providence Place

 

Hillsborough
Brookshire Nursing Center

 

Kannapolis
Transitional Health Services of Kannapolis

 

King
Village Care of King

 

Lexington
Abbotts Creek Care and Rehabilitation Center
Alston Brook

 

Lincolnton
Brian Center Health & Retirement – Lincolnton

 

Lumberton
Golden LivingCenter – Lumberton
WoodHaven Nursing & Alzheimer’s Care

 

Matthews
Carrington Place
Willowbrooke Court Skilled Care Center at Plantation Estates

 

Monroe
Brian Center Health & Retirement – Monroe

 

Mount Airy
Central Continuing Care

 

Nashville
Autumn Care of Nash

 

Newton
Abernethy Laurels

 

Raleigh
The Oaks at Mayview
The Rosewood Health Center

 

Ramseur
Universal Health Care – Ramseur

 

Salisbury
Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks
North Carolina State Veterans Nursing Home Salisbury

 

Sealevel
Snug Harbor on Nelson Bay

 

Shelby
Cleveland Pines Nursing Center

 

Southport
J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital

 

Statesville
Autumn Care of Statesville
Iredell Memorial Hospital

 

Tarboro
Golden LivingCenter – Tarboro

 

Wadesboro
Ambassador Health & Rehab of Wadesboro

 

Wilmington
Davis Health Care Center

 

Wilson
Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center

 

Winston-Salem
Brian Center Health & Retirement

 

Yadkinville
Yadkin Nursing Care Center

 

Zebulon
Wakemed Zebulon/Wendell Outpatient & Skilled Nursing Facility

 

*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.

**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.

***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.