Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation

    4911 Brian Center Ln, Winston Salem, NC 27106
    • 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

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

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

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.13·(193)

    Overall rating

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

      3.4
    • Staff

      4.0
    • Meals

      2.9
    • Amenities

      3.4
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing and CNA staff
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy program
    • Engaging activities director and social programming
    • Helpful and responsive admissions and front-desk staff
    • Dedicated maintenance and housekeeping teams
    • Clean and well-maintained public areas
    • New first-floor wing with private, spacious rooms
    • Timely discharge planning and rehabilitation focus
    • Family-oriented, home-like atmosphere
    • Some customized dietary options and accommodation for preferences
    • Safe and secure campus areas
    • Consistent orientation and admissions support

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and reliance on agency personnel
    • Poor inter-staff and family communication processes
    • Delays in call-bell response and resident assistance
    • Supply and equipment availability gaps
    • Inconsistent medication administration and physician engagement
    • Gaps in pressure-injury prevention and incontinence-care processes
    • Variable cleanliness and pest-control concerns in some rooms
    • Inconsistent meal quality and dining experience
    • Limited nighttime staffing and sleep-disruption issues
    • Weak coordination of emergency escalation and external transport
    • Inadequate care-plan follow-through and documentation
    • Allegations of theft and financial misconduct
    • Facility maintenance and cosmetic deterioration in places
    • Activity programming not consistently tailored to residents' abilities

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews indicate a facility with notable strengths in rehabilitation and several areas of staff excellence, paired with persistent operational shortcomings. Many families and residents praise the therapy department (PT/OT/ST), admissions/front-desk personnel, and individual nurses and CNAs who provide attentive, recovery-oriented care. Positive accounts describe a warm, home-like atmosphere in parts of the building, engaged activities staff, reliable discharge planning begun at admission, and well-kept public areas and grounds. A recently added wing offering private, spacious rooms and examples of prompt maintenance work are further positives cited by multiple sources.

    At the same time, recurring service-level issues appear across reviews. Staffing inconsistency—including heavy reliance on agency staff—was repeatedly linked to delays in responding to call bells, gaps in bathing and incontinence-care schedules, and missed or delayed medication and clinical oversight. Several reviewers raised concerns about pressure-injury prevention and wound care continuity, suggesting uneven implementation of routine turning and skin checks. Emergency escalation and transport coordination were also described as unreliable by some families, with instances of long ambulance waits and difficulty reaching on-call clinicians.

    Communication and management organization emerge as additional pattern-level weaknesses. Reviewers describe fragmented communication among CNAs, nurses, social work, and reception, which contributes to discharge confusion, missed notifications to families, and uneven follow-through on care plans. Supply shortages and equipment lapses (for example, missing linens or adaptive equipment) were mentioned as operational constraints that affect daily care. Cleanliness and pest-control concerns were raised for some resident rooms despite generally clean common areas, indicating variability in housekeeping effectiveness across units. Activity programming and meal quality were both described as inconsistent: the activities team is praised for engaging events, yet some residents find offerings poorly matched to abilities; similarly, meals receive both praise and criticism for taste and consistency.

    A subset of reviews describe severe individual incidents and allegations, including alleged theft/financial misconduct and very serious care failures that led families to request investigations or Ombudsman involvement. These items are not universal but are significant enough that prospective families should inquire about financial safeguards, incident reporting, regulatory history, and how the facility investigates and remediates serious concerns.

    Overall, the pattern is of a facility capable of providing high-quality rehabilitation and compassionate care under favorable staffing and leadership conditions, but one that shows variability across shifts and units. Prospective residents and families would be well served to confirm current staffing ratios, ask about wound- and pressure-injury protocols, review call-bell response metrics, inspect room-level cleanliness and pest-control procedures, and discuss emergency escalation and financial-protection measures with administration prior to placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
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    Location

    Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is located at 4911 Brian Center Ln, Winston Salem, NC, 27106.

    About Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation

    Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation sits in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and provides both short-term and long-term skilled nursing care to seniors and those who need help after an illness or injury, and with 80 beds and an average daily census of about 60 residents, folks find it a smaller place where it's easier to get to know the faces around them, and they do try to give each resident a sense of home and family. The facility has changed hands in the last twelve months and is now managed by Alliance Health Group LLC, with Megan Afton running things as administrator, and while some find comfort in the fact that staff like Regina W Harrell as director of social services and Theresa Samuel as nursing manager are ready to help, there have been some rough patches including a nurse turnover rate of 62.2% - higher than the state average of 50.9%.

    Staff spend an average of 3.66 nurse hours per resident per day, which is just a bit below the state average of 3.8, and while they try to keep staffing steady, changes have taken place at the top with Alliance Health Group taking control since August 2024. Over 35 years in the field gives the staff experience with compassionate care, and the team provides both nursing home care and assisted living, including specialized therapy and orthopedic rehab, respite care, and hospice care, for residents with different needs. There are amenities meant to make life easier and more comfortable, though anyone looking into Mill Creek Center should know that the place has had some struggles, including 39 inspection deficiencies, several infection control violations, and a significant complaint that resulted in a $16,452 fine for issues like resident rights violations and pharmacy service problems.

    Even with the setbacks, a steady team of rehabilitation specialists work full-time to create personalized care plans, and folks can receive therapy after a fall or illness, and friends can be made easily thanks to the smaller, close-knit setting, but anyone coming in should look over state inspection reports carefully, since the deficiency count is above typical. Owned by a for-profit limited liability company and affiliated with Alliance Health Group, Mill Creek Center is a public company with about 51 to 200 employees, and they focus on helping every resident recover and thrive. While the place strives for a warm, welcoming environment with caregivers who treat residents with dignity, some may wish to ask about infection prevention steps in light of past deficiencies. Families will want to consider the full mix of care service options, including nursing, therapy, and hospice services, as well as staffing and support levels before making a choice.

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    Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    No, Mill Creek Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation 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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