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 joined the GrayBrier. 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 today Missy oversees all daily operations as the Administrator of the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. In February 2011, Justin Percival joined the GrayBrier team as an Administrator-in-Training. Justin will work closely with all departments over the next year and a half before stepping into Missy's shoes as the GrayBrier Administrator.
The GrayBrier now boasts 3 full-time Licensed Nursing Home Administrators and an Administrator-in-Training. 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.