Fair Haven of Forest City

    830 Bethany Church Rd, Forest City, NC 28043
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.0ยท3 reviews

    Very pleased with attentive care

    I've been very pleased with the care here. The staff and caregivers are consistently helpful and attentive, the facility is clean, the food is good, and there are plenty of social activities that keep residents engaged. Overall it's been a very positive experience for me.

    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

    3.00ยท(3)

    Overall rating

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

      2.7
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Professional occupational therapy staff
    • Helpful and attentive caregivers
    • Clean, well-maintained interior spaces
    • Good meal quality
    • Engaging social activities and programs
    • Overall supportive assistance and resident care

    Cons

    • Inconsistent direct-care staffing and task completion
    • Slow response to call bells and assistance requests
    • Incontinence-care process gaps
    • Personal-item and laundry management weaknesses
    • Gaps in clinical observation and wound monitoring
    • Dietary management and meal-delivery inconsistencies
    • Cross-contamination and infection-control concerns
    • Maintenance and infrastructure deficiencies (bathrooms, parking, exterior)
    • Management and staff-training deficiencies

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewer feedback reflects a mix of positive experiences and operational concerns. Strengths include a clearly professional occupational therapy team, caregivers who many families find helpful and attentive, generally clean interior spaces, and a range of social activities and programs that support engagement. Several families described overall satisfactory assistance and felt the facility provided helpful daily care for their relatives.

    Care quality appears uneven. While therapy services are consistently viewed positively, direct-care delivery (primarily CNAs and some nursing interactions) is described as inconsistent. Common themes include delays in responding to call bells, staff appearing overextended, and gaps in routine personal-care tasks. Specific process-level issues noted by families include inconsistent denture and personal-hygiene care and lapses in incontinence-care protocols. There are also accounts suggesting gaps in clinical observation and wound monitoring, which point to variability in how clinical issues are identified and communicated.

    Dining receives mixed feedback: many families and residents describe the food as good, but there are concerns about dietary management and coordination with individualized meal plans. A few families felt compelled to supplement facility meals with food brought from home due to perceived mismatches between dietary needs and meal service. This suggests opportunities to strengthen diet-staff communication and meal-delivery consistency.

    Activities and housekeeping are relative strengths. The facilityโ€™s programming and social offerings are highlighted as active and engaging, and several reviewers praised the general cleanliness of interior common areas and resident rooms. These positives indicate an operational focus on resident quality of life and environmental upkeep in many parts of the building.

    Facility and maintenance issues were raised around resident bathrooms and exterior infrastructure. Examples include shared toilet configurations, fixtures in disrepair, stained flooring in restrooms, limited parking, and potholes in the driveway. These are facility-level maintenance matters that can affect safety, accessibility, and visitor convenience.

    Management and training emerge as cross-cutting themes. Families described defensive or unsatisfactory staff responses when personal items were lost and noted concerns about training, supervision, and nurse engagement with routine bedside care. There are also expressed worries about infection-control practices and potential cross-contamination, indicating areas where policy reinforcement and staff education could improve confidence.

    Taken together, the pattern suggests a facility with valuable clinical and programming assets but with operational weaknesses that affect daily resident experience. Prospective residents and families should consider asking specific questions about staffing ratios and turnover, call-response metrics, incontinence and wound-monitoring protocols, laundry and personal-item policies, dietary plan coordination, and recent maintenance or capital-improvement plans. Clearer communication channels between management and families, targeted staff training, and strengthened clinical oversight would likely address many of the recurring concerns while preserving the facilityโ€™s strengths in therapy, cleanliness, dining quality, and activity programming.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

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    Location

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    Fair Haven of Forest City is located at 830 Bethany Church Rd, Forest City, NC, 28043.

    About Fair Haven of Forest City

    Fair Haven Of Forest City, LLC, sits at 830 Bethany Church Road in Forest City, NC, where it's served seniors since 1964 with its Fair Haven Home and since 1979 through Eastwood Village. This independently owned community supports people aged 55 and up, and the staff have always worked to keep residents comfortable, cared for, and satisfied. The facility focuses on a wide range of care services, and folks can find options here like independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care, memory care for people with memory impairments, continuing care, nursing homes, home care, respite care, and care homes. Even though there aren't many details about amenities or the special touches in each part of Fair Haven, they've got a Skilled Nursing Facility with 100 beds, a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic, and offer therapy and dementia care to meet more complex needs for those who need them. Staff members speak English, with possible other languages. Brian Hutchison runs the place as its administrator. No new patients are being admitted right now, but the team remains dedicated to serving current residents. Folks interested can schedule tours, and when you go, you'll see staff and some residents, helping get a feel for life in this retirement community. There's no detailed list of programs, but services here aim to fit the changing needs of seniors with a focus on health, safety, and comfort.

    People often ask...

    Fair Haven of Forest City offers skilled nursing.

    The full address for this community is 830 Bethany Church Rd, Forest City, NC 28043.

    No, Fair Haven of Forest City 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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