The Triad's three major cities have a combined nine nursing home facilities rated as high performing for short-term rehabilitation care in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings released Tuesday.
Nursing homes typically offer either short- or long-term care with assistance in daily living activities, such as bathing, dressing, medication management, rehabilitation and chronic disease management.
Winston-Salem led with five high-performing facilities for short-term rehabilitation: Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Center, Brookridge Retirement Community, Homestead Hills, Salemtowne and Trinity Glen. Salemtowne also was ranked high-performing for its long-term care.
Arbor Acres, Brookridge and Salemtowne all retained their high-performing status, while Homestead Hills and Trinity Glen improved from average.
For Greensboro, high-performing facilities were Camden Health and Rehabilitation Center, Kindred Hospital East and Whitestone. High Point's lone high-performing facility was Maryfield Nursing Home.
Kindred, Maryfield and Whitestone remained as high performing, while Camden improved from average.
High-performing facilities, however, were not located just in the urban parts of the 14-county Triad and northwest North Carolina region.
U.S. News listed another 13 nursing home facilities in the region as high performing, including: Archdale (Clapp's Convalescent Nursing); Bermuda Run (Bermuda Village Retirement Center; Burlington (Twin Lakes Community); Colfax (River Landing at Sandy Ridge); Eden (UNC Rockingham Rehabilitation & Nursing Care Center); King (Village Care); Lexington (Abbotts Creek Center); McLeansville (Ashton Health and Rehabilitation); Mount Airy (Northern Regional Hospital); North Wilkesboro (Wilkes Regional Medical Center, Wilkesboro Health and Rehabilitation); Reidsville (Penn Nursing Center) and Thomasville (Piedmont Crossing).
The evaluation includes ratings of 82 regional nursing homes for their short-term rehabilitation services, with 56 of them offered enough long-term care services to qualify for that rating as well.
For short-term rehab care, altogether there were 22 regional nursing homes rated as high performing, 23 as average and 17 as below average.
For long-term care, altogether there were seven high-performing, 39 average and 10 below average facilities.
About 20% of the nearly 15,000 nursing home nationwide were ranked as high performing for short-term rehabilitation, long-term care or both.
Rating system
The rating systems reviewed several factor for short-term rehab and long-term care "using a variety of quality measures obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service."
Among those factors are: resident care; safety, outcomes and other aspects of quality; nurse staffing levels, consistency and retention; use of antipsychotic drugs; and success in helping residents avoid unnecessary emergency department visits.
Among the overall observations from U.S. News was that for short-term rehab facilities, high-performing centers had a 50% higher discharge level to a household residence -- rather than to long-term care -- compared with a below-average facility.
The report cited three primary points of emphasis with long-term care facilities.
High-performing nursing homes for long-term care, when compared with below-average facilities, have:
* Double the staff retention rate of nursing homes;
* Preserve residents' self-reliance longer, such as being 50% less likely to lose the ability to perform self-care activities;
* Give residents antipsychotic medications 46% less of the time; and
* Residents are more than 60% less likely to require emergency department care.
"Since 2009, U.S. News' annual Best Nursing Homes analysis has supported American consumers and their families in making more informed decisions about quality of care for their loved ones," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News.
Harder added that "staffing levels continue to be a major challenge for U.S. nursing homes."
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