Emory L Bennett Memorial Veterans Nursing Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1994-01-19. 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 (386) 274-3460 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Emory L Bennett Memorial Veterans Nursing Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (2★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 64.9/100, placing it #10397 of 14703 facilities nationally and #606 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 Emory L Bennett Memorial Veterans Nursing Home receives a reported average of 4 hours 12 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 4 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 38 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 30 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 38 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 66.3%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $9,503. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $9,503, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 27.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Emory L Bennett Memorial Veterans Nursing Home ranks 10397th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 64.9/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within FL, it ranks 606th out of 694 nursing homes. In Daytona Beach, it ranks 10th out of 10 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 4th of 4. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #3,628 nationally and RN hours rank #1,670 nationally (#97 in FL). Our composite quality score of 64.9/100 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 Daytona Beach, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/florida/daytona-beach/