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Founded in 1951, Baptist Retirement Homes is one of North Carolina’s most respected providers of long-term care. With four long-term care facilities located throughout the state, BRH provides all levels of care for aging adults. We invite you to stay informed with our blogs — a valuable resource designed to provide educational insight, and helpful advice for seniors, family members, and caregivers.
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Why BRH is the Right Choice to Retire in North Carolina
The decision to retire is no small feat. Finding the right place to call home requires significant planning that ensures all the amenities, residential options, healthcare services, location, and more will suit your lifestyle preference now and for years to come....
Baptist Retirement Homes Has Your Answers
When choosing the right retirement community to call home for you or your loved one, there are a number of questions that need to be answered so you are well equipped to make an informed decision. Baptist Retirement Homes has a stand-out legacy of offering exceptional...
Medicine from the Heart campaign underway
Medicine From The Heart is a program that helps older adults receive their medications more cost effectively. Watch our video to learn more about the program and the positive impact it is having. If you would like to become a partner today, email Keith Dixon at...
Meet Jennifer Bartscht, our new Vice President of Sales and Marketing
After a national search, Baptist Retirement Homes has selected Jennifer Bartscht as its Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Jennifer has more than 20 years of sales experience in the senior living space. That experience includes sales team leadership as well as...
Meet Scott Farkas, Our New Chief Financial Officer
It is my great pleasure to announce that after an extensive recruitment and interview process, we have selected Scott Farkas, CPA, as Baptist Retirement Home's new Chief Financial Officer. Scott comes to us with 12 years of senior living financial experience, most...
What Does Retirement at Baptist Retirement Homes Look Like?
When it comes to selecting the right retirement community to call home, whether it’s for you or a loved one, it’s important to find a place that best suits your lifestyle needs, as well as the promise of care should the need for healthcare services arise. At Baptist...
What Is a Life Plan Community?
Just as you have choices in where to work or which restaurant to eat dinner, you also have choices in where to live when you retire. Some of those options include staying in your current home, moving to a retirement home-ownership or rental community, or considering a...
Designing Garden Homes for the Future of Brookridge
Brookridge Garden Homes are perfect for active seniors who wish to maintain their independence but readily embrace the concept of a maintenance-free lifestyle. Our newly redesigned plans for these two-bedroom residences reveal transformative updates that feature...
Assisted Living vs. Memory Care: What’s the Difference?
Understanding the difference between assisted living and memory care is important when it comes to making decisions about your loved one’s future, especially the types of senior living options that are available, such as communities offering a continuum of care. Both...
Baptist Retirement Homes Announces Reed VanderSlik as the New President and CEO
Baptist Retirement Homes is excited to announce the arrival of Reed VanderSlik as the new President and CEO. Reed takes over for the retiring Bill Stillerman who successfully lead the organization for almost 35 years. Reed comes to Baptist Retirement Homes with over...
Coronavirus Updates
At Baptist Retirement Homes of North Carolina, our priority has always been to keep our residents and staff safe. We are closely monitoring COVID-19 and its impact and have proactively taken steps as recommended by state and local health officials as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to keep our communities, residents and staff safe.
We look forward to hosting you on our campuses when we are once again open for tours, meals, activities and events. Thank you so much for your cooperation and understanding during this unprecedented challenge. We are all in this together – and together, we will get through it.
Baptist Retirement Homes of North Carolina is committed to being transparent and providing information about our communities in regard to COVID-19, our residents and team members. We will provide timely updates about each of our communities on this page. You will find this information below.
Brookridge
- Cumulative residents tested this week: 0
- Current positive residents: 0
- Number of residents vaccinated: IL – 95 percent; health care – 98 percent
- Cumulative employees tested this week: 35
- Current positive employees: 0
- Number of employees vaccinated: 84
- Any new positive COVID-19 cases: No
- Updates to visitation policies: Healthcare is opening in phases. Indoor visitation is allowed for all residents in room. Please call 336-759-1044 to schedule your visit. Social Distancing, screening, and masks are required at all visits. 2 family members are allowed in a resident home at a time. If over two visitors, please plan to visit in the lobby or outdoors due to social distancing requirements.
- Information about upcoming tours: June 17 at 2 p.m.
Taylor Glen
- Cumulative residents tested this week: 0
- Current positive residents: 0
- Number of residents vaccinated: 0
- Cumulative employees tested this week: 0
- Current positive employees: 0
- Number of employees vaccinated: 0
- Any new positive COVID-19 cases: No
- Updates to visitation policies: Family members may visit residents in their rooms in Health Care and Assisted Living. Visitors in Health Care and Assisted Living must make an appointment, be screened, wear a mask and have no contact with other residents during the visit.
Taylor House
- Cumulative residents tested this week: 13
- Current positive residents: 0
- Number of residents vaccinated: 11
- Cumulative employees tested this week: 20
- Current positive employees: 0
- Number of employees vaccinated: 7
- Any new positive COVID-19 cases: No
Western North Carolina
- Cumulative residents tested this week: 0
- Current positive residents: 0
- Number of residents vaccinated: Health Care – 100 percent; AL- 99 percent
- Cumulative employees tested this week: 0
- Current positive employees: 0
- Number of employees vaccinated: 0
- Any new positive COVID-19 cases: No
- Updates to your visitation policies: Health Care is opening in phases. Indoor visitation is allowed to all residents through scheduled lobby and outdoor visitation. Please call 828-254-9675 to schedule your visit. Social distancing, screening, and masks are required at all visits. Assisted Living is currently open to in room visitation. All visitors must enter thru the main entrance to for screening. For assisted living, two family members are allowed in a resident home at a time.