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Watauga County, North Carolina

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County inventory for Watauga County, North Carolina is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Home-health agency signature

2 Medicare-certified home-health agencies map into Watauga County (upper tercile, ≥2) beside 2 nursing homes - CareScout 2025 North Carolina medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet NC-WATAUGA-NORTH-CAROLINA · Watauga, NC

NH-ONE · BEDS-SMALL · STAR-LOW · HH-SMALL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-SMALL 226 beds
  • STAR-LOW 2.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 2 HH
  • RANK-MID #1,973/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,496/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 2/2 NH · 2/2 HH

Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (high) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.

What a dense home-health map shows for Watauga County

Home-health coverage is the standout for Watauga County: 2 Medicare-certified agencies (upper tercile) sit beside 2 nursing homes and 226 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 2.0/5 on rated homes.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 North Carolina medians run assisted living $6,496/mo, semi-private nursing $9,733/mo, private nursing $10,798/mo, home health aide $5,720/mo, adult day $1,831/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts run softer here (1 at 1★, 1 at 3★). Ownership leans For profit - Limited Liability company (100% of 2 homes). Pair the ladder with inspection notes, staffing, distance, and specialty units before treating any single home as a fit.

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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$6,496
Assisted Living / mo
$9,733
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$5,720
Home Care / mo
2.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Watauga County

2 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
The Foley Center at Chestnut Ridge Blowing Rock 3/5 92 For profit - Limited Liability company
Glenbridge Health And Rehabilitation Boone 1/5 134 For profit - Limited Liability company

Home Health Agencies in Watauga County

Medicare-certified agencies from CMS Home Health Compare, zip-joined into this county inventory.

Agency City Quality Rating
Centerwell Home Health Boone 4.0
Medi Home Health and Hospice Boone 3.5

Read next for home-health-dense Watauga

Read CMS stars with Watauga County's 2.0 average
Thin-book context for Watauga: How inspection, staffing, and quality measures combine when the county mean sits below 3★.
Choosing among 2 Watauga County homes
Softer-star neighbourhood: A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Watauga AL medians run high
Home-health-dense path: Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Watauga County planning
Home-health-dense path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the North Carolina elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are North Carolina state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).

Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Watauga County.