Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh

    5201 Clarks Frks Dr, Raleigh, NC 27616
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • 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

    2.82·(101)

    Overall rating

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

      2.2
    • Staff

      2.5
    • Meals

      2.0
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive caregiving staff
    • Strong rehabilitation services (physical, occupational, speech therapy)
    • Friendly and helpful front-desk/reception staff
    • Engaging activities program and proactive activity director
    • Well-maintained common areas and pleasant facility environment
    • Responsive therapy teams that support mobility and recovery
    • Cooperative kitchen and dining-room coordination
    • Clean rooms and orderly areas reported by some families

    Cons

    • High staff turnover and reliance on agency personnel
    • Chronic understaffing and high patient-to-aide ratios
    • Poor responsiveness to call bells and in-room requests
    • Inconsistent medication administration and clinical follow-up
    • Inadequate management and security of residents' personal belongings
    • Variable sanitation and incontinence-care practices
    • Inconsistent food quality and unreliable meal-service timing
    • Insufficient supervision and unprofessional staff conduct
    • Weak leadership and management oversight with census focus
    • Deficient family communication and admissions coordination
    • Gaps in fall-prevention and transfer-safety processes
    • Billing and paperwork irregularities and pressured consent practices
    • Regulatory investigations and serious conduct allegations

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews present a mixed and highly variable picture of the facility. Positive accounts emphasize strong rehabilitation services, an engaged activities program, and individual staff members—particularly therapists, some nurses, and front-desk personnel—who provided attentive, compassionate care. Several families described meaningful therapy progress, helpful reception staff, and pleasant common areas that created a home-like atmosphere. At the same time, a substantial number of reviews describe operational inconsistencies that materially affect day-to-day resident experience.

    Care and staffing are the most frequently cited areas of concern. While some caregivers and nurses are characterized as compassionate and responsive, persistent staffing shortages and high turnover were recurring themes. These workforce issues are associated with long response times to call bells, inadequate assistance with feeding and toileting in some shifts, and stretched aide-to-resident ratios. Clinical concerns were also raised about medication administration, insulin guidance, oxygen management, and follow-up after clinical events. Conversely, therapy services (physical, occupational, and speech) receive consistently positive mention as strengths when available and staffed.

    Dining, housekeeping, and personal-care services showed mixed results. Several reviewers appreciated supportive dining coordination and enjoyed therapy-assisted mobility to dining rooms, while others described inconsistent meal timing, limited menu choices, and variable food quality. Housekeeping and room cleanliness were reported as satisfactory by some families but problematic by others; specific sanitation concerns and inconsistent bathing or incontinence-care schedules were noted. Management of personal items—loss, misplacement, or perceived theft of clothing and personal effects—was reported frequently enough to be an operational concern.

    Activities and facilities are commonly described as a relative strength. The building, common areas, and social programming were often portrayed as pleasant and engaging, with an activity director singled out for above-average effort. Several families reported that common spaces and therapy areas supported resident socialization and rehabilitation. However, some accounts also mentioned odor concerns and uneven cleanliness on certain resident floors.

    Management, supervision, and administrative processes emerge as central drivers of the facility’s variability. Reviews indicate weak leadership, a focus on census over care, limited supervision of staff, and problematic communication with families and during admissions. There are also references to billing and paperwork pressure and at least one mention of regulatory attention and serious conduct allegations; such items suggest the need for careful review of oversight and compliance history. Allegations of unprofessional conduct by staff (including substance-use concerns) and instances of hostile or dismissive communication were reported and raise questions about staff supervision and culture.

    In summary, the facility appears to deliver high-quality rehabilitation and benefits from some dedicated frontline staff and a welcoming physical environment, but those strengths are offset by systemic operational weaknesses: staffing instability, inconsistent clinical and personal-care practices, property-management lapses, and leadership gaps. Prospective residents and families should arrange in-person visits, ask for current staffing levels, inquire about recent regulatory findings and corrective actions, request examples of medication- and belongings-management protocols, and meet key clinical leaders (administration, DON, therapy leads) to evaluate whether the current operational state matches their expectations for safe, reliable care.

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    Location

    Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh is located at 5201 Clarks Frks Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616.

    About Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh

    Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh sits near Route 1 and I-540 in North Raleigh, run since 2004 by Choice Health Management Services, and has a mix of care levels for people aged 55 and up, offering skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, memory care, and long-term care. This place has 132 certified beds with about 98 residents on average and rooms in studio or one-bedroom layouts, both semi-private and private, along with a community fee, respite fee, buy-in fee, and different charges based on care needs, which can range from light help to heavier support, with staff offering standby help for those who are non-ambulatory and help for transfers from beds to wheelchairs. Staff stay on site all hours to respond in emergencies, watch blood sugar for diabetes, and give extra care for incontinence, though residents must manage their own supplies. The facility offers meals every day, so residents never worry about cooking, and has gym areas where therapists do both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, with up to 2-3 hour therapy sessions seven days a week, all inside a gym with advanced therapy tools. Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh also features the LifeWorks Rehab Recovery Program, which gives people unique tools like the Recovery Map and a Personal Report Card to track how much therapy helps them get moving after surgery, illness, or injury. The team can help with pain management and stress in their Center for Stress and Pain Management, and you'll find indoor common areas for activities and space to move around, encouraging folks to socialize. There are devotional services but these happen offsite. Pharmacy services and medical supplies are available, and therapy staff, physicians, and nurses are all regular team members, not outside contractors. Universal Healthcare/North Raleigh has faced problems, which is important to know-it's been a Special Focus Facility because of ongoing quality concerns, they have twenty-four-hour staff but also higher nurse turnover than average at 63.5%, and state inspectors have found 109 deficiencies over time, including a major one for failing to manage infection control, plus other issues around nurse skills and competencies, so it's something to think about. The facility gets about 3.5 nurse hours per resident each day, a little under the state average, and has hospice services if needed along with respite and recovery care for surgeries and illnesses.

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