Liberty Commons of Johnston County

    2315 NC-242, Benson, NC 27504
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.69·(58)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.6
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      3.3
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • Kind, patient, and courteous frontline staff
    • Strong physical, occupational, and speech therapy
    • Reported functional progress during rehabilitation
    • Helpful admissions and social-work support
    • Individualized care planning and family involvement
    • Clean, well-maintained facility and resident rooms
    • Welcoming environment and accommodating staff
    • Positive dining experiences for some residents
    • Activities, lounge, and common-area amenities
    • Supportive care across rehabilitation, assisted living, and long-term care

    Cons

    • Staffing constraints and delayed responses to resident requests
    • Uneven family communication, callback reliability, and administrative availability
    • Variable bedside responsiveness and communication tone
    • Clinical monitoring and care-plan execution gaps, including medication, diet, pain, therapy, and appointment coordination
    • Inconsistent accommodation of prescribed diets and individual food needs
    • Personal laundry and belongings tracking problems
    • Shared rooms and dated furnishings in some areas
    • Limited activity variety and unreliable phone and internet connectivity

    Summary of reviews

    Experiences at Liberty Commons of Johnston County vary considerably across the reviews and across rehabilitation, assisted living, and longer-term care. Many residents and families describe kind, patient staff and positive rehabilitation experiences. Physical and occupational therapy receive especially strong praise, with some residents describing meaningful improvements in mobility and successful transitions home. Other accounts raise concerns about delays in assistance, uneven bedside responsiveness, and gaps in clinical monitoring or follow-through. Serious individual accounts describe concerns involving medication and diet management, pain control, pressure-injury prevention, infections, and coordination of appointments or therapies. These accounts warrant attention, but the reviews alone do not establish how frequently such problems occur.

    Staff interactions are a clear strength in many accounts: families describe friendly nurses and aides, helpful admissions and social-work teams, and staff who answer questions and involve relatives in care planning. Some reviewers also describe effective communication and personalized plans. In contrast, other families report difficulty getting returned calls, limited access to leaders, or inconsistent communication tone. Several accounts attribute longer waits for assistance to staffing constraints, while others describe frontline staff as working hard and providing good care despite those constraints.

    Dining feedback is mixed. Some residents and families praise the meals, while others describe them as basic, bland, or inconsistent. There are also concerns about whether individual dietary needs are reliably accommodated. Cleanliness and upkeep are frequently praised, including clean rooms and common areas; a smaller number of accounts identify room-cleaning concerns. The building is described as spacious and orderly by some, while another resident found furnishings dated and shared rooms undesirable. Reviewers mention a coffee lounge, televisions, arts and crafts, church services, and music, though one account wanted a broader range of activities. One family also describes poor internet and phone connectivity affecting outside communication and online tasks.

    Overall, the reviews show a facility with notable strengths in rehabilitation, personal warmth, and cleanliness, alongside reported operational inconsistencies in staffing responsiveness, communication, and care coordination. Prospective residents and families may wish to ask about staffing coverage, escalation and callback processes, how clinical and dietary plans are checked, therapy and appointment coordination, laundry tracking, room arrangements, and available activities and connectivity.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Liberty Commons of Johnston County is located at 2315 NC-242, Benson, NC, 27504.

    About Liberty Commons of Johnston County

    Liberty Commons Nursing & Rehab Center of Johnston County sits in a quiet country spot in Benson, North Carolina, close to Highway 242 North, so you can get to it pretty easily from I-40 or I-95, and it's been around for over 23 years with room for about 100 residents on any day, always aiming to look after folks who need post-acute care, short-term rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and long-term living all under one roof. The building offers both private and semi-private suites, and some rooms have extras like flat-screen TVs, in-room refrigerators, and Wi-Fi, which can help make things more comfortable while you're there, plus there's a rehabilitation unit, a therapy gym with an Activities of Daily Living Suite, and outside and inside gathering areas where residents can spend time or join in social activities or just sit with family.

    Amenities include 24-hour nurse coverage, an on-site beauty and barber salon, housekeeping, laundry, air conditioning, internet, and parking for visitors, plus there's in-room dining for those who want it, and the staff helps with things like dressing, bathing, laundry, medication reminders, and housekeeping to support assisted living and encourage independence whenever possible. Rehabilitation at the center covers physical, occupational, and speech therapies with a full in-house therapy team and physician oversight, using tools like diathermy and electrical stimulation for joint, muscle, and swallowing problems, and there's a wound care physician, as well as support for managing things like incontinence, falls, IV therapy, cardiopulmonary issues, geriatric psychiatry needs, and podiatry services.

    The clinical team works with residents to set up care plans that focus on regaining lost skills after things like accidents, surgeries, or strokes, aiming to prevent hospital returns and treat secondary health problems so people can get back as much independence as possible, while those who are staying longer can receive long-term care, hospice, palliative, and respite care all on the same campus. Liberty Commons Nursing & Rehab Center is managed by Liberty Healthcare Group, LLC and Liberty Healthcare Management, Inc. with Administrator Janet Hogue and has 100 certified beds and about 95 residents each day. It's got a history of offering a full range of care for seniors, but it's important to know the facility has had 58 deficiencies found in state inspections, including two for infection control, and others for areas like dialysis care, respiratory services, and resident assessment-including not always screening for mental health or intellectual disabilities when required.

    Nurse staffing is a bit below the state average at 3.62 hours per resident per day, and the nurse turnover rate sits higher than many other North Carolina centers at 70.3%, so care consistency could be a concern for some families, even though the nursing team includes registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nursing assistants working day and night. The place has a BBB rating of A+ but hasn't gotten BBB accreditation. Liberty Commons is affiliated with Liberty Senior Living, and it is owned and operated by Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Johnston County, LLC along with other Liberty entities.

    Residents can get specialized services for recovery after medical events, support for psychosocial needs, fall prevention, wound care, as well as day-to-day help with grooming, eating, and hobbies, in a wheelchair-accessible setting with on-site services, outdoor spaces, and a lounge for social time. The facility isn't perfect-there have been deficiencies, and nurse staffing could be better-but it does offer a comprehensive mix of skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and assisted living options along with the therapies and services you'd expect from a center run by Liberty Senior Living.

    People often ask...

    Liberty Commons of Johnston County offers assisted living and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 2315 NC-242, Benson, NC 27504.

    No, Liberty Commons of Johnston County does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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