Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

    1016 Fletcher St, Wilkesboro, North Carolina 28697
    • 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

    4.37·(43)

    Overall rating

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

      3.9
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      2.7
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing and caregiving staff
    • Supportive, family-style communication and updates
    • Effective rehabilitative and therapy services
    • Clean, well-maintained facility and common areas
    • Comfortable, well-decorated resident rooms
    • Secure memory-care/dementia unit
    • Engaging activities and social programming
    • Experience with end-of-life care
    • Welcoming, family-like culture
    • Volunteer-friendly environment

    Cons

    • Gaps in medication-administration controls
    • Transfer and mobility-safety lapses
    • Delays in responding to resident needs and call bells
    • Inconsistent staffing levels and staff morale
    • Management responsiveness and supervisory inconsistencies
    • Inadequate provision of consumable supplies and charge practices
    • Inconsistent food quality, variety, and meal timing
    • Occasional equipment shortages and outdated devices
    • Inconsistent bed-safety equipment standardization
    • Variable adherence to standardized care protocols across shifts

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed but clearly patterned picture. Many families emphasize strong, compassionate caregiving, effective therapy services, and a clean, comfortable physical environment. At the same time, a smaller number of accounts describe serious clinical and safety concerns; taken together, the feedback suggests that the facility delivers high-quality interpersonal care in many cases but may have operational gaps that affect clinical reliability and safety.

    Care and staff: Strengths are concentrated in direct caregiving and therapy. Reviewers frequently describe staff as caring, attentive, hardworking, and communicative with families, with specific praise for therapy teams and experience in end-of-life care. Several long-term families reported consistent, reliable service over years. Counterbalancing this, other reviewers described inconsistent staff attentiveness, delays in responding to resident needs, and situations indicating weak supervision or unclear care direction—particularly among CNAs. These comments point to variability in day-to-day care consistency, rather than a uniform standard across the facility.

    Dining and activities: Opinions about dining are mixed. Some reviewers praise the food, guest trays, and engaging activity programming; others report limited menu variety, frequent pork-based options, cold or bland meals, and occasional late service. Activity and social programming were generally viewed positively, with families noting engaging offerings and opportunities for volunteers to participate.

    Facilities and safety: The facility's physical plant is often described as clean, well-decorated, and comfortable, with nicely maintained common areas and a secure memory-care unit. However, reviewers also raised concerns about outdated equipment in places, occasional equipment shortages, and non-standardized bed-safety provisions. More serious accounts describe clinical-safety failures (for example, medication administration and transfer safety), which—if accurate—indicate gaps in clinical oversight and transfer safety practices that warrant verification by prospective families.

    Management and operational patterns: Several comments point to inconsistent management responsiveness, unclear supervisory direction, and staffing shortfalls that contribute to variable morale. There are also complaints about billing or charge practices for consumables and about supply provisioning. These operational issues appear to underlie many of the service inconsistencies described above: where staffing, supervision, or supply chains are strained, families are more likely to see delays, inconsistent food service, and lapses in safety-related practices.

    Notable patterns and recommendation for families: A clear pattern emerges of strong interpersonal care from many staff members alongside operational vulnerabilities that can affect clinical reliability. Prospective residents and their families may want to verify current medication-administration protocols, staffing ratios by shift, incident-reporting practices, transfer-safety procedures, and policies around supplies and extra charges. In-person observation of mealtimes, staffing interactions, and the memory-care unit can help families assess whether the facility’s strengths align with their priorities and whether the operational concerns have been addressed.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located at 1016 Fletcher St, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, 28697.

    About Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

    Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has 176 certified skilled nursing beds and usually about 110 residents living there each day, and sometimes you'll hear about the 186 total bed count and the 30-bed Alzheimer's unit, but really the SPARC Memory Unit holds fifteen semi-private rooms for those who need memory care, and you'll find that the SPARC program-Specialized Programming for Alzheimer's and Related Care-gives folks with dementia or memory loss a safe and structured spot, lots of oversight, and fairly tailored activities that try to match what each person can manage, and there's always 24-hour support and care, so people who need more than average personal help with things like bathing, dressing, eating, taking medicine, or just getting around have that assistance nearby all day and night. The place offers short-term rehab after surgery or hospital stays, long-term care for those with chronic illnesses, and a chance for respite stays, and people in both regular and memory care units get regular meals from a kitchen, served in the family-style dining room for the SPARC unit, with customized meal plans if someone's got to watch their salt, sugar, or other dietary needs, because a lot of residents there might have trouble with heart disease, diabetes, or high blood pressure, and often need more careful monitoring with medicine that the staff can store and give as needed. They have a physician who oversees things with an on-site team of nurses giving about 3.04 hours per resident per day, and nurse turnover sits at 31.1%, with the staff coming and going more than some would like, but folks still get personal care plans from an interdisciplinary team meant to help keep independence and give some sense of dignity even as people's conditions may change, and the general care model pays attention to mind, body, and spirit so it's not just about medicine.

    Masks are required at all times for everyone-staff and guests-when they're inside, and every person going in has to do a temperature check and fill out a health assessment, and the center partners with experts from the clinical world and sticks close to CDC guidelines, which lately has meant using things like electrostatic cleaning, new filters such as MERV 13, and some new air scrubbers in hopes they'll catch or prevent viruses, because even with effort, there's been a noted infection-related deficiency regarding how infection control's handled, and all those facts come up in the inspection reports, showing 16 total deficiencies. The whole property has safety features meant to help residents move around safely, especially those with dementia, with access control technology guarding the Memory Care Unit, and there's housekeeping, laundry, help with transportation, and a raft of activities shaped to fit with whatever someone's able to do, handled by staff trained to manage behavioral concerns attached to memory issues, plus some emphasis on making visiting hours workable-though the reception office does keep regular hours from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

    Westwood Hills has always run as a for-profit corporation under Principle Long Term Care, Inc., since 2011, with managerial names like Raymond, Robert, and Roger Hill, and Principle IT Services, Inc. part of the ownership picture, and it meets federal requirements so they can accept Medicare and Medicaid. The place commits to being a fair housing and equal opportunity provider, so anyone meeting care needs can live there. The center isn't perfect, but people who need skilled nursing, short-term rehab, long-term help, or memory care for Alzheimer's and dementia will find a setting trying to balance safety, social life, and medical help, all under close professional supervision.

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    Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 1016 Fletcher St, Wilkesboro, North Carolina 28697.

    No, Westwood Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 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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