Nc State Veterans Home-Kinston

    2150 Hull Rd, Kinston, NC 28504
    • 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

    4.50·(26)

    Overall rating

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

      4.1
    • Staff

      4.1
    • Meals

      4.3
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Strong rehabilitation and physical-therapy services
    • Compassionate, respectful nursing and caregiving staff
    • Clean, odor-free facility and well-maintained interiors
    • Welcoming environment and visitor-friendly staff
    • Engaging activities and social programming
    • Veteran-focused services and community support
    • Private rooms with pleasant views
    • Therapy-dog program
    • Efficient admissions and transition support
    • Attentive housekeeping and facility maintenance
    • Professional and pleasant clinical and administrative staff

    Cons

    • Inadequate staffing levels impacting timeliness of care
    • Delays in clinical response and monitoring for residents with cognitive impairment
    • Weaknesses in alarm and call-system responsiveness
    • Inconsistent communication and transparency with families and care planning
    • Variable meal quality and nutrition monitoring
    • Inconsistent infection-control communication and outbreak management
    • Variability in staff professionalism and attentiveness
    • Limited administrative responsiveness to serious family concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a facility with strong clinical rehabilitation strengths and a generally warm, well-kept environment, combined with recurring operational concerns that families should weigh when evaluating placement.

    Care and clinical services: The facility receives consistent praise for its rehabilitation and physical-therapy programs; several accounts describe measurable functional improvement following therapy. Nursing and caregiving staff are frequently characterized as compassionate and respectful, and many families note attentive day-to-day assistance. At the same time, reviewers raise concerns about timeliness of clinical response — particularly for residents with cognitive impairment — and describe situations that suggest gaps in monitoring frequency and follow-up care. A few accounts reference hospital-level complications following delayed attention, which underscores the need to confirm individualized monitoring plans and escalation pathways during admission.

    Staff and professionalism: Staff are generally described as friendly, skilled, and welcoming to visitors; admissions and some administrative staff receive positive mention for smoothing transitions. Nonetheless, reviewers also describe variability in staff attentiveness and communication tone, including examples of distracted caregivers and adversarial family–staff interactions. Understaffing is a recurrent operational theme and is linked in reviews to slower responses to calls and reduced oversight during peak periods.

    Dining and nutrition: Experiences with dining are mixed. Multiple reviewers compliment the food, while others indicate that meal preferences were not always met and that weight loss or nutrition monitoring became a family concern. Prospective families should ask about menu flexibility, weight/nutrition monitoring protocols, and individualized meal planning for residents with appetite or swallowing issues.

    Activities and environment: The building and grounds are frequently described as clean, well-designed, and odor-free, with private rooms and pleasant views. Activity programming is cited as robust and engaging — including a therapy-dog program — though there are isolated notes about staff turnover in activities and a quieter afternoon schedule in some units. Housekeeping and facility maintenance are generally viewed positively.

    Management and communication: Administrative responsiveness appears uneven. Positive experiences with admissions staff contrast with reports of slow or limited responses when families raise serious concerns, including outbreak communication and requests for care-plan meetings. Several reviewers asked for clearer arrival information, a family brochure about services and lost-item recovery, and more proactive communication around infection-control events.

    Notable patterns and recommendations: Strengths center on rehabilitation, a clean and welcoming physical environment, and many compassionate caregivers. The main operational weaknesses to probe further are staffing levels and their effect on responsiveness, monitoring practices for residents with dementia or high fall risk, alarm/call-system reliability, consistency of nutrition management, and transparency of administrative communication. Prospective families should ask for specific staffing ratios, monitoring schedules for cognitive impairment, alarm-response procedures, infection-control communication plans, and documented care-plan meeting processes before placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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

    Location

    Nc State Veterans Home-Kinston is located at 2150 Hull Rd, Kinston, NC, 28504.

    About Nc State Veterans Home-Kinston

    Nc State Veterans Home-Kinston sits under the care of the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and has 100 certified skilled nursing facility beds, so it's a government-owned place set up mainly for elderly veterans who need long-term care, and what you'll notice is that they have a focus on specialized services for veterans with dedicated staff like registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nursing assistants working under licensed physicians, and folks will find that the nurse staffing level is 4.76 hours per resident per day, which is above the state average, while the nurse turnover rate sits at 42.3%, better than the usual North Carolina rate, but if you look at the inspection history, there've been 15 deficiencies including some about infections and others about following resident rights, especially about keeping residents, families, and doctors informed right away, so some communication lapses have happened and there have been times when treatment and care didn't match the orders or residents' preferences exactly, but since the Division of Veterans Affairs took control in March 2013 the aim's been stable management and better oversight, and what's clear is that the home's got rooms and common spaces that feel comfortable and secure so folks can have independence and some personal choice, plus there are extra services like therapy, pharmacy, infusion, medical supply, home health, hospice, and palliative care-so, for veterans needing advanced nursing or just a bit of help with day-to-day living, there's both skilled nursing and assisted living options, and the home's also set up so families can stay connected and get updates on how their loved ones are doing, with an administrator named Bonnie Ard running things, so that's the situation, and the whole place has been working off more than 50 years serving veterans, using senior-friendly amenities, and keeping care tailored to the unique needs of those who served in the military, and the main goal stays about improving veterans' quality of life by offering steady, compassionate care meant for their challenges.

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