Friendship Health & Rehab Center North

    327 Hershberger Rd, Roanoke, VA 24012
    • Independent Living
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing

    Caring staff modern secure community

    I live here and I'm very pleased with the caring, responsive staff and clean, modern apartment-style rooms. The grounds and amenities - pool, gym, spa, salon, chapel, regular activities and outings - plus 24/7 nursing and strong therapy services make daily life easy and secure. Convenient location, veteran-friendly, family-involved - a comfortable, well-run community I'd recommend.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    3.77·(56)

    Overall rating

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

      2.9
    • Staff

      3.6
    • Meals

      2.8
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      2.8

    Pros

    • Compassionate and friendly staff
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy services
    • Clean, well-maintained common areas
    • Large, spacious resident rooms and apartments
    • Active, organized activities program
    • On-site amenities (courtyard, pool, spa, exercise room)
    • Bistro/restaurant-style dining options
    • 24/7 on-call nursing and medical availability
    • Veteran-friendly environment
    • Pet-friendly accommodations in some units
    • Responsive maintenance and groundskeeping
    • Secure, locked memory-care unit in designated areas
    • Holiday and community event programming

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and scheduling
    • Gaps in routine personal-care delivery
    • Variability in meal quality and dining consistency
    • Inconsistent housekeeping and sanitation practices
    • Gaps in medication and clinical-management processes
    • Weak transport and external-care coordination
    • Insufficient security protocols and visitor controls
    • Inconsistent memory-support training and practices
    • Variable communication with families and care teams
    • Personal-property-management and billing disputes
    • Variable responsiveness to urgent clinical needs
    • Occasional failures in documentation and privacy controls

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews portray a facility with a broad range of strengths alongside recurrent operational weaknesses. Positive themes include an engaged activities department, ample on-site amenities, large and comfortable living spaces, and several accounts of attentive, compassionate staff—particularly in therapy, weekend nursing, and select units. The facility appears to offer a robust activities calendar (bingo, art, music, outings, church services, concerts) and food-service options such as a bistro and restaurant-style dining. Grounds and common areas are frequently described as clean and well maintained, and maintenance responsiveness is noted as a strength.

    Care quality descriptions are mixed. Several accounts highlight effective rehabilitation and therapy outcomes, and some memory-care areas are described as safety-focused with individualized approaches. However, reviewers also describe operational patterns that raise clinical concerns: inconsistent staffing levels (with weekday/weekend variation), lapses in routine personal-care delivery (including delayed bathing and incontinence-care delays), and inconsistent wound/skin integrity management. There are also specific mentions of medication and diagnostic errors and of delayed escalation or transfer coordination that, when they occur, have prompted family intervention and external hospital care. Overall, clinical reliability appears uneven—strong in some units and shifts, problematic in others.

    Staffing and staff conduct receive both praise and criticism. Many reviewers describe staff as friendly, helpful, and compassionate; others describe curt or unfriendly interactions, high caregiver stress, and staff turnover or understaffing that contributes to inconsistent care. Training gaps are a recurring theme, especially regarding memory-support skills and security practices. Reviewers also raised concerns about documentation and privacy practices in some instances, which suggests a need for clearer protocols and staff reinforcement.

    Dining and activities are generally strengths but inconsistent in execution. Meals are provided three times daily and the facility offers varied dining options, with several reviewers praising the food and bistro; others describe bland or overcooked meals and variability in quality. The activities program is consistently highlighted as active and diverse, with an engaged activities director and regular social programming that supports resident engagement.

    Facilities and amenities receive positive comments for size, cleanliness of common areas, and availability of on-site features (courtyard, pool, spa, exercise rooms, beauty/barber services). At the same time, some reviews cite localized sanitation and pest-control concerns, intermittent housekeeping lapses, and occasional malfunctions (for example, call-button issues). Security practices are described as inconsistent: some units have locked memory-care areas and safety focus, while other descriptions suggest unclear visitor-controls and untrained personnel performing security tasks.

    Management and administrative themes include both strengths (prompt maintenance, helpful administrative staff, organized events) and weaknesses (transport coordination errors, billing and deposit disputes, missing personal items, and variable responsiveness to family concerns). Several reviewers advise that advocacy and close communication with management are necessary to ensure consistent care and to resolve clinical or administrative problems promptly.

    Notable patterns: experiences appear polarized—many families report excellent care and a pleasant living environment, while others report serious operational lapses affecting personal care, clinical management, safety, and property control. Prospective families should verify current staffing levels and turnover, ask for documentation of training (especially for memory care), review medication management and incident-reporting protocols, confirm housekeeping and infection-control practices, inspect call-button and security systems, review transport/transfer policies, and discuss billing/ deposit policies. A facility tour combined with direct questions about shift coverage, response times, care-plan reviews, and how the facility handles complaints will help clarify whether the unit or shift under consideration aligns with an individual resident’s needs.

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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

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    Friendship Health & Rehab Center North is located at 327 Hershberger Rd, Roanoke, VA, 24012.

    About Friendship Health & Rehab Center North

    Friendship Health & Rehab Center North sits in Roanoke, Virginia, among the Blue Ridge mountains, and folks know it as a healthcare facility that covers nearly every need for seniors. This place offers independent living for adults 55 and older, assisted living, and a big skilled nursing center with 253 licensed beds, so they can cover everything from a bit of extra help to full nursing care and even therapy after surgery or injury. Residents get access to health and memory care, long-term stays, respite care, outpatient and inpatient therapy, and round-the-clock nursing supervision, and the staff helps with daily activities like bathing, dressing, medication, and transfers, with a nurse always ready nearby and a 24-hour call system for extra safety. People there can get counseling, overnight care aimed at healing, and support for memory loss issues, while the adult medical day care offers a safe place for adults needing daytime help. There's a physicians clinic for outpatient visits, on-site dialysis and pharmacy, and specialized rehab and therapy services, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy. The community supports veterans with resources about benefits, employment, health, and housing, and seniors get help too with everything from caregiving to financial or legal issues, thanks to a big resource library and a directory of thousands of local and national programs. The team at Friendship Health & Rehab Center North includes directors for nursing, independent living, therapy, and more, plus a chaplaincy for spiritual support and a marketing and admissions director for assisted living.

    Rooms come with private bathrooms, cable TV, kitchenettes, telephones, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and furnishings, so folks settle in easy, and pricing runs from $262 to $297 a day for private rooms or $222 to $257 a day for a shared option, which Medicaid and Medicare will cover for those eligible. Community features include a restaurant-style dining room with all-day meals, accommodations for allergies or dietary needs, a big community room, fitness and wellness spaces, a movie theater, game and activity rooms, spa, gardens with walking paths, and lots of places to sit with family or visit with neighbors overlooking the mountains. Residents join in on arts and crafts, movie nights, fitness classes, music, and whatever resident-run activities appear, and the staff handles laundry, housekeeping, transportation, move-in coordination, and family support. The place remains wheelchair accessible for anyone who needs it and is designed to offer both help for those who can't walk and support for independent folks. Over the past year, Friendship Health & Rehab Center North provided over 81,000 patient days and has been known for over 100 years as a spot where seniors can age with care, with staff focused on independence, dignity, and support. Whether folks want to spend time outdoors, hang out with friends in the dining room, or just sit with family on the front porch taking in the mountain view, there's reliable care and a sense of community here, and that's how things tend to go at Friendship Health & Rehab Center North in Roanoke.

    People often ask...

    Friendship Health & Rehab Center North offers independent living, assisted living, continuing care retirement community, and skilled nursing.

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    Yes, Friendship Health & Rehab Center North allows residents to age in place and adjust their level of care as needed.

    The full address for this community is 327 Hershberger Rd, Roanoke, VA 24012.

    No, Friendship Health & Rehab Center North 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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