Lehigh Acres Healthcare & Rehab Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1986-01-07. 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 (239) 369-2194 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Lehigh Acres Healthcare & Rehab 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 (2★), 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 73.2/100, placing it #6794 of 14703 facilities nationally and #435 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 Lehigh Acres Healthcare & Rehab Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 51 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 44 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 52 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 15 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 25 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 2 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 49.6%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $132,889. 10 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 2 fine(s) totaling $132,889, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 2. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 331.25 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Lehigh Acres Healthcare & Rehab Center ranks 6794th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 73.2/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within FL, it ranks 435th out of 694 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #5,862 nationally and RN hours rank #4,464 nationally (#250 in FL). Our composite quality score of 73.2/100 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 Lehigh Acres, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/florida/lehigh-acres/