Nursing home report
Morehead City, NC · Medicare-certified · 92 beds
Crystal Bluffs Rehabilitation and Health Care Center has an overall 5 out of 5 stars, with 5 stars for health inspections but lower 3-star staffing and quality measures. Reported nurse staffing is 3.87 hours per resident per day, below the 4.1 federal benchmark, and there were no fines in the last 24 months.
Health inspections
Staffing
3.8673 hrs/resident/day
Quality measures
Federal guidance recommends at least 4.1 nursing hours per resident each day. This facility reports 3.8673.
Hours per resident per day.
How often residents experience these outcomes, with the direction over the past year.
Long-stay residents on antipsychotic medication
Residents with a fall causing major injury
Residents with pressure ulcers (bedsores)
Residents with a urinary tract infection
Residents who lost too much weight
Residents who were physically restrained
Residents needing more help with daily activities
Residents whose ability to walk got worse
Long-stay residents on antianxiety or sleep medication
Short-stay residents newly given an antipsychotic
Residents with a long-term catheter
Residents with new or worsening incontinence
Residents with depressive symptoms
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
Long-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
Short-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
Short-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
The nursing home failed to post its nurse staffing information every day, so families could not easily see daily staffing levels. Cited January 2026 — widespread issue, minimal harm.
F-Tag 732 — 42 CFR §483.35(i) — S/S: C
Reported nurse staffing was below the federal recommendation of 4.1 hours per resident per day.
Health inspection found 1 health deficiency.
Things at a nursing home change — inspections, staffing, ownership, news.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — public records, updated monthly. GoodStanding presents official records with plain-language summaries. Always visit a facility in person.
