Lake City Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2019-08-20. 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 (386) 269-3900 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Lake City Healthcare And 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 (2★), Staffing (2★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 70.3/100, placing it #8151 of 14703 facilities nationally and #514 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 Lake City Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 27 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 21 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 58 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 8 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 12 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 67.1%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 3 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $14,517. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 53.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Lake City Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center ranks 8151st out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 70.3/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within FL, it ranks 514th out of 694 nursing homes. In Lake City, it ranks 3rd out of 4 facilities. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #9,580 nationally and RN hours rank #11,930 nationally (#634 in FL). Our composite quality score of 70.3/100 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 Lake City, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/florida/lake-city/