Oxford Health and Rehabilitation Center

Location & what’s nearby

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

35.0% of the Medicare patients who left this home got back to the community and stayed there for at least 31 days — CMS rates that worse than the national rate. This is CMS’s risk-adjusted rate over 72 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 43.4% of this home’s Medicare short-stay residents left it at or above the ability to care for themselves and move around that CMS predicted for them, across 99 stays in Oct 2024–Sep 2025. The median of the 11,061 homes CMS publishes this for is 56.6%. Read it beside the getting-home figure, not instead of it: unlike the two measures above, CMS makes no better-or-worse call on this one and publishes no confidence interval for it, so this is a comparison and not a verdict — but it is the short-stay measure that separates homes most, and the one to ask about.

Therapy staffing: this home’s payroll records show 0.34 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 58% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 16% of this home’s weekday level — it runs some therapy at the weekend, at a lower level than on weekdays. The median home that reports therapy runs 13% — weekday-focused therapy is the industry norm, not a shortfall. But recovery does not pause on a Saturday: ask what the weekend actually looks like here.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 160 beds and averages 159.3 residents a day — about 100% occupied, or roughly 1 bed typically open. It runs essentially full — expect a waiting list. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 3.05 hrs/resident/day is below the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.15 is below the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.09 is below the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 2.47 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 3.28 on weekdays — 25% thinner on weekends — a notable drop. RN hours go from 0.18 to 0.07 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 60% is well above the national median of 45%.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are more than at the previous inspection — worsening. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

18 citations, most serious first. The 10 most serious are shown; the remaining 8 are one tap away and print in full.

• Potential for harm · D2026-06-15 · tag F0759 — failed to keep medication error rate low — isolated
  Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations, staff interviews, a consultant pharmacist interview, and record reviews, the facility failed to have a medication error rate below 5 percent. Three medication errors were identified out of twenty-six opportunities, resulting in a medication error rate of 11.5 percent for two of the five residents observed during the medication administration observation (Resident #4 and Resident #6).Findings included:1. Resident #4 was admitted on [DATE] with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure.Resident #4 had a physician's order dated 6/9/2026 that directed the administration of two 20-milligram tablets of Torsemide by mouth twice daily for treatment of congestive heart failure.During a medication administration observation on 6/15/2026 at 8:28 AM, Nurse #2 administered one 20 milligram tablet of Torsemide to Resident #4.A review of the medication administration record showed that Nurse #2 documented that Resident #4 received two 20 milligram tablets of Torsemide on 6/15/2026 at 8:50 AM.During an…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Fcited before2025-11-21 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — widespread
  Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations and staff interviews, the facility failed to maintain the double door oven, the stove drip pan, the steam table backsplash and rack under the steam table clean. The facility failed to label, and date opened food and failed to separate raw meat from cooked food in 1 of 1 walk-in refrigerator, and in 1 of 1 walk-in freezer. The facility also failed to label and date resident's foods, failed to discard expired food, and keep nourishment refrigerators clean for 3 of the 4 nourishment refrigerators (200, 300, 400/500 hallway nourishment refrigerators) observed. The facility failed to ensure 2 of 2 dietary staff wore hair restraints and 2 of 2 male dietary staff had all facial hair contained in a face covering. The facility also failed to hold cold food (equal to or less than 40 degrees Fahrenheit (F)) on the steam table and remove chipped plates and dirty plates from the plate warmer during tray line observation. These practices had the potential to affect food being served to residents.Findings…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2025-11-21 · tag F0803 — failed to meet residents' dietary needs — pattern
  Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observations, record reviews, and staff interviews, the facility failed to follow the planned menu for renal and diabetic renal diets, and for mechanical altered and pureed diets. Failure to follow the planned menu was observed during 1 of 1 tray line observation conducted. This affected 7 residents on renal diet, 3 residents on renal diabetic diet, 17 residents on mechanically altered diet and 12 residents on pureed diet. Findings included:a. The diet spread sheet for therapeutic diets for lunch meal on 11/18/25 revealed renal and diabetic renal diets were to receive 4-ounces (oz) of carrots.The Diet Type Report revealed there were 7 residents on renal diet and 3 residents on renal diabetic diet.Tray line observation on 11/18/25 at 12:10 PM, revealed the steam table had no carrots for the renal and diabetic renal diets.On 11/18/25 at 12:22 PM the Certified Dietary Manager (CDM) entered the kitchen and stated that renal diets would be receiving sliced cucumbers. Two renal trays were observed with sliced cucumbers. During an interview on 11/18/25 at 12:25 PM, the CDM…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-11-21 · tag F0582 — isolated
  Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review, and staff and Durable Power of Attorney interviews, the facility failed to convey (transfer) funds within 30 days of discharge from the facility to the Durable Power of Attorney for 1 of 3 residents reviewed for refund of deposit (Resident #165).Findings included:Resident #165 was admitted to the facility on [DATE]. The resident had a planned discharge to another skilled nursing facility on 4/11/25.A review of the discharge tracking MDS dated [DATE] revealed Resident #165 had a planned discharge to another facility on 4/11/25.On 11/18/25 at 1:03 PM an interview via telephone with Resident #165's Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) occurred. The DPOA explained the resident initially paid privately for care at the facility. Resident #165 was discharged to another skilled nursing facility on 4/11/25 and was owed a refund of approximately $1700. The DPOA revealed she had been in contact with the facility's Business Office Manager (BOM) the week of 4/11/25 and was told she would receive a refund…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-11-21 · tag F0602 — failed to protect residents from theft of their belongings — isolated
  Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review and staff interviews, the facility failed to protect the residents' right to be free from misappropriation of a controlled substance medication (oxycodone) prescribed to treat pain. This occurred for 2 of 2 residents (Resident #177 and Resident #131) reviewed for the misappropriation of property.The findings included: a. Resident #177 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] from a hospital. His cumulative diagnosis included chronic hip pain, heart failure and non-Alzheimer's dementia. A review of Resident 177's electronic medical record (EMR) revealed his physician's orders included the following pain medications:--On 9/30/25, a physician's order was received for 500 milligrams (mg) of acetaminophen (an over-the-counter pain medication) to be administered as two tablets by mouth every 8 hours for pain. --On 10/7/25, a physician's order was written for 10 mg oxycodone to be administered as one tablet by mouth every 6 hours as needed for chronic hip pain for 14 days. A Packing Slip Proof of…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Past Non-Compliance
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2025-11-21 · tag F0656 — failed to write and follow a full care plan — isolated
  Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations, record reviews, and resident and staff interviews, the facility failed to implement care planned interventions for fall safety for 1 of 4 residents reviewed for accidents (Resident #105). The findings included:Resident #105 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that included hemiplegia (complete paralysis on one side of the body) and hemiparesis (partial weakness on one side of the body) following stroke affecting the dominant right side.The admission Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment dated [DATE] indicated Resident #105 was severely cognitively impaired and required total assistance from staff for activities of daily living (ADL). She was assessed as having no falls since admission.A review of Resident #105's active care plan initiated on 4/17/25 revealed there was a problem area for being at risk for falls related to muscle weakness, reduced physical mobility, requiring assistive devices to walk or transfer with an intervention of a fall mat to bilateral sides of bed.On…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-11-21 · tag F0658 — failed to meet professional standards of care — isolated
  Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review and physician and staff interviews, the facility failed to have effective systems in place for entering medication orders into the electronic medical record and administering medications per the physician orders for a new admission for 1 of 6 residents whose medications were reviewed (Resident #174). The findings included:Resident #174 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] at approximately 4:45 PM with diagnoses that included Type 2 diabetes mellitus with chronic foot ulcer, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and congestive heart failure.A review of Resident #174's physician orders dated 12/10/24 included the following: Coreg Oral Tablet 6.25 MG (Carvedilol) Give 1 tablet by mouth at bedtime for hypertension at 8:00 PM, start date 12/11/25. Hold for systolic blood pressure (SBP) below 95 and HR below 60. Gabapentin Capsule 100 MG Give 1 capsule by mouth two times a day for neuropathy at 9:00 AM & 9:00 PM, start date 12/11/25.Flomax Capsule 0.4 MG (Tamsulosin HCl) Give 1 capsule by mouth…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-11-21 · tag F0689 — failed to keep residents free of avoidable accidents; supervise adequately — isolated
  Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations, record review and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure smoking assessments were accurate and completed quarterly for 1 of 8 residents reviewed for smoking (Resident #50).The findings included:Resident #50 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses including Parkinson's disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Review of the comprehensive Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment dated [DATE] revealed Resident #50 was not using tobacco at the time of admission and was severely cognitively impaired. Resident #50's smoking assessment dated [DATE] completed by Nurse #4 recorded Resident #50 had cognitive loss and indicated Resident #50 needed supervision when smoking. The smoking assessment specified Resident #50 had a cognitive loss, required an occupational therapy evaluation as needed, and needed supervision when smoking. An interview was conducted on 11/20/2025 at 1:37 PM with Nurse #4, Unit Manager. Nurse #4 revealed she completed the smoking assessment for Resident…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-11-21 · tag F0760 — failed to prevent significant medication errors — isolated
  Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review and physician and staff interviews, the facility failed to prevent significant medication errors when Nurse #6 did not schedule a new residents' (Resident #174) medication to start on the afternoon of admission. The medications were available in the Pyxis system (an automated, secure, and centralized system used in healthcare to manage the storage, dispensing, and tracking of medications). Resident #174 was admitted on [DATE] at approximately 4:45 PM, his medications were scheduled to start on 12/11/24 at 8:00 and 9:00 AM. This was for 1 of 6 residents whose medications were reviewed.The findings included:Based on record review and physician and staff interviews, the facility failed to have effective systems in place for obtaining and administering medications to a new admission which resulted in a significant medication error for 1 of 6 residents whose medications were reviewed (Resident #174). The findings included:Resident #174 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · F2024-07-03 · tag F0814 — failed to dispose of garbage properly — widespread
  Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observations, and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure the garbage and refuse was disposed of and keep 4 of 4 dumpsters and surrounding area clean and free from debris. The findings included: During an initial tour observation on 6/30/24, at 9:54 AM, revealed 4 dumpsters located near a wooded area at the back of the facility had large amounts trash bags of garbage and refuse overflowing from the tops and loose paper products, boxes and loose food products outside of containers on the ground and surrounding areas. A follow-up observation and interview were conducted on 7/2/24 at 12:00 PM, with the Dietary Manager revealed the trash bags filled with garbage left on the ground had been removed, however the surrounding area had not been thoroughly cleaned evidence by the remaining paper and food products was still on the ground around the sides and backs of the dumpsters. The Dietary Manager stated the dietary staff were responsible for cleaning the 3 smaller dumpsters daily and the larger rental dumpster should have been emptied on 6/28/24. The rental company did…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

“Cited before” means this same F-tag appears on at least one other survey date in the record we hold — counting complaint investigations as well as standard surveys, with no time limit. It is our own read of the data, not CMS’s: CMS uses repeat deficiency as a formal term tied to consecutive standard surveys, and that is a narrower test than this one. A tag marked here may or may not meet it.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Part of a chain

This home belongs to LIFEWORKS REHAB — 64 facilities. Here is how its ratings compare with the chain’s average across all its homes: See the whole chain — ratings, flags, fines and finances →

A home rated well below its chain’s average can signal local problems; a chain with a low average across the board is a bigger pattern worth researching. CMS chain data under-reports private-equity and REIT ownership, so treat this as a floor, not the full picture.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 48 rows in the source record cover these 38 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted. The source lists no ownership percentage for any of them — PECOS records a share only for equity interests, not for board or management roles.

26 organizational owners listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

Follow the money — this home’s finances

Where a nursing home’s revenue comes from and where it goes — including money paid to companies under the same ownership. Most consumer sites never show this; we reproduce it straight from the Medicare cost report.

About 73% of this home’s resident-days are paid by Medicaid, which reimburses well below the cost of care in most states. Heavily Medicaid-dependent homes run on thinner budgets — a context worth holding next to the staffing and inspection record, not a fault in itself. This home reported $2.2M paid to related parties — landlords or management companies under common ownership — equal to about 18% of its total expenses. Money routed to affiliated companies can leave a home’s own books looking lean while owners still profit; it is the mechanism regulators watch most closely in private-equity and REIT deals.

Source: CMS Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS), Medicare cost report Form CMS-2540 · fiscal year 2023. Facilities self-file these reports; figures are unaudited and a year or two behind. A home with no Medicare cost report on file shows no figures here.

Cost & finances

Straight from this home’s Medicare cost report (CMS, FY2023). These are its operating economics — what it costs to run per resident-day and what it collects on average across Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay — not a private-pay quote. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on payer and room type, so ask the facility directly; a higher operating cost can reflect richer staffing or a sicker population. The cost-of-care planner shows regional benchmarks by care type.

What families pay in NC