The Gray Brier Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

In March of 1990, local owners, Richard and Sarah Bennett broke ground for a family owned and operated Nursing facility known as The GrayBrier Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.  The Bennett’s’ extensive background in Nursing Home Administration, consisting of four decades of combined experience, allows the GrayBrier to run efficiently while offering excellent care.  Richard and Sarah are still owners and operators to this day and are on-site daily to oversee operations and maintain their high operating standards.

Thousands of visitors, residents and families have passed through our doors since our Grand Opening in November of 1990.  The GrayBrier prides itself on having a stable Management team and ownership group as these have remained the same since our conception and will continue into the foreseeable future.  

The second generation of Management and Ownership has joined the GrayBrier to continue our tradition of a family owned and operated business that offers exceptional care!  In November of 2003, Missy Bennett Lawver, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Bennett, joined the administrative staff.  Missy has grown up in the Long Term Care Industry and should lead us well into the future.  Today Missy oversees all daily operations as the Administrator of the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

The GrayBrier now boasts 3 full-time Licensed  Nursing Home Administrators. The GrayBrier has been noted, from an operations standpoint, as being in the top one percent of all skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina , according to a top accounting firm in North Carolina.

To insure excellent Care, The GrayBrier offers the following services:  

• In-patient Therapy services including:  Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy
• 128 licensed Nursing (Combination of Private & Semi-Private Rooms)
• 24-hour care provided by professionally trained nurses
• 14 Private & Semi-Private Assisted Living units with continuous 24-hour care
• A Secured Environment Area (SEA) for residents who have tendencies to wander
• Private dining, sitting, and recreation areas for the residents’ family activities
• On-site professional hair care
• Diabetes Management
• Enteral Feeding
• IV Antibiotic Therapy
• On-site Dental, Vision & Podiatry services
• Dialysis Management
• Pain Management
• Hospital Services
• Secured outside areas for all residents
• Pets are welcome to visit!  
• On-site Pet Therapy for our residents 
• Alzheimer's Care.
• Maintains a very high standard for a clean and fresh-smelling environment
• Continuous education for our team members regarding Resident’s Rights and Safety Issues

Upon admission to the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, our team of professionals will assess each resident’s needs, and develop an appropriate plan of care to ensure that each resident functions at the highest possible level.  To assist with patients’ needs and physician orders the GrayBrier provides three types of therapy.

Physical Therapy

• Mobility:  Increasing the ability to ambulate and/or use wheelchair propulsion; improving skills to enable residents to achieve maximum independence.
• Balance:  Improving resident’s balance to enhance safety of transfers and/or ambulation activities.
• Positioning:  Assessing lower extremity needs for orthotic devices to prevent contractures or improve mobility; wheelchair positioning for restraint reduction.
• Lower Extremity Function:  Improving resident’s range of motion, increasing strength through progressive resistance exercises or muscle re-education.  

Occupational Therapy

• Activities of Daily Living:  Increasing residents’ independence in self-feeding, dressing, bathing, and hygiene by learning new or compensatory techniques with or without adaptive equipment.  
• Functional Transfers:  Improving transfer skills from wheelchair, walker, or cane level to toilet, bed, tub, and shower.
• Upper Extremity Function:  Improving resident’s active range of motion, dexterity and coordination; muscle re-education for partial paralysis.

Speech Pathology

• Speech/Voice:  Improving residents’ slurred speech, hoarseness and nasality.
• Language:  Improving residents’ abilities to understand others and express themselves verbally, in writing, and gesturing.
• Hearing:  Improving residents’ abilities to adapt to a hearing loss and better understand others.
• Cognitive Linguistics:  Improving cognitive skills to reduce confusion and disorientation; improving impaired problem solving and reasoning skills.
• Swallowing:  Improving residents’ abilities to swallow and minimize choking; assist with poor tongue and lip movement and refusal to eat.