Lakelands Nursing And Rehabilitation Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1968-07-15. 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 (864) 366-5122 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Lakelands Nursing And Rehabilitation Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 4 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (5★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (1★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 60.9/100, placing it #11774 of 14703 facilities nationally and #158 of 187 in South Carolina. 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 Lakelands Nursing And Rehabilitation Center receives a reported average of 4 hours 36 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 11 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 55 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 30 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 57 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 46.4%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

Lakelands Nursing And Rehabilitation Center has received zero fines across all five years of available data (2022–2026), reflecting a strong regulatory compliance record. One substantiated complaint was recorded across the 5-year period. 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 6.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Lakelands Nursing And Rehabilitation Center ranks 11774th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 60.9/100), placing it in the bottom 25% nationwide. Within SC, it ranks 158th out of 187 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #2,080 nationally and RN hours rank #1,194 nationally (#15 in SC). Our composite quality score of 60.9/100 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 Abbeville, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/south_carolina/abbeville/