The Best Nursing Home Communities in Carteret County, NC

"Crystal Bluffs Rehabilitation and Health Care Center is a good place. My mom preferred that one over the one that she's in now. She had her own private room when she was there and it was spacious, kept clean, and updated. I think all nursing home facilities are understaffed, but I think she received better care there. She would rather have gone back there than to the place where she is now, but they just did not have any open beds. Most of the staff were good. The food was OK."

"Checked this facility out thoroughly, before assisting my father to move in here. They have a wonderful philosophy of making you feel like you're a valued guest, while still overseeing your safety and security. Owner opened the facility to provide this excellent offering based on years of experience herself in the health care field. She wanted to open a place that "she" would like to live in. "

"This facility has been running for a while. Even though it’s not a five star resort I found the care to my loved one was top notch. Nothing is ever perfect, but when I concerned issues they were heard and staff tried to accommodate them. Rooms are double occupancy and small with a shared bathroom. One cna named Melissa provided top notch care for my family member. She went beyond the call to help him before he left to go home. "

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"My brother is at Pruitthealth-Sea Level. He has been there for eight weeks now. They are reasonably responsive to phone calls and such. They have a social worker, a financial person, and an activities director, which are the three people I interacted with. My brother worked with nursing techs and a physical therapist for a little while. They are building and moving to a new facility, so the facility is quite old, but I didn't feel like it was unsafe or anything like that. Our biggest struggle was that my brother didn't always get daily transfers to the wheelchair, which did not help his progression in getting better. They were slow to start physical therapy and somewhat inconsistent in getting his physical therapy. When the insurance denied coverage for skilled nursing or regular kind of activities of daily living care, they also discontinued physical therapy, which doesn't fall into that category, so I'm not sure why they did that. And that was the one thing he needed. That's my biggest distress with them. I don't think they did everything they could to advocate for him to continue to get physical therapy. They never submitted the physical therapy claims for review or anything like that with his insurance company separately from the overall facility charges. They're not particularly knowledgeable in the way that they could work with insurance companies. I think they're used to just taking people that ultimately end up on Medicaid and just taking whatever Medicaid pays. So for me, that was a little bit of a struggle. My brother was in a private room initially, I think because maybe the insurance covered it. Then shortly after insurance quit covering him, even though he's paying, they moved him to a semi-private room. They never asked us if we had a preference or gave us any options for different charges, they just moved him and discontinued his physical therapy without conversations about this thing. "

"My mother is in Snug Harbor on Nelson Bay. It is absolutely beautiful and the layout is perfect. The staff has been wonderful, helpful and very caring. Their dining area is separate from the main. There's a big one for the ones who just need therapy or a place to live and a smaller one for my mother. The food is delicious and accommodation is wonderful. They go to church and they had happy hour last Friday evening, but there's no alcoholic beverage. They had music and she got up and danced. They also have bingo."