Park Meadows Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1968-11-20. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (352) 378-1558 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Park Meadows Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 2 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (1★), Staffing (3★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 74.4/100, placing it #6215 of 14703 facilities nationally and #402 of 694 in Florida. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Park Meadows Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 39 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 28 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 54 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 16 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 23 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 3 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 49.4%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 3 fine(s) totaling $184,287. 9 substantiated complaints were recorded across the 5-year period — families should request details from the facility or review CMS inspection findings. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 3 fine(s) totaling $184,287, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 3. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 385.5 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Park Meadows Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center ranks 6215th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 74.4/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within FL, it ranks 402nd out of 694 nursing homes. In Gainesville, it ranks 6th out of 9 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 4th of 4. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #7,627 nationally and RN hours rank #9,373 nationally (#529 in FL). Our composite quality score of 74.4/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Gainesville, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/florida/gainesville/