Lakewest Rehabilitation And Skilled Care is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2011-05-05. 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 (214) 879-0888 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Lakewest Rehabilitation And Skilled Care holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 1 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (2★), Staffing (1★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 60.5/100, placing it #11940 of 14703 facilities nationally and #952 of 1177 in Texas. 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 Lakewest Rehabilitation And Skilled Care receives a reported average of 3 hours 16 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 10 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 4 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 2 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 51 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 1 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 69.9%. 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 $21,645. 14 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 1 fine(s) totaling $21,645, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 96.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Lakewest Rehabilitation And Skilled Care ranks 11940th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 60.5/100), placing it in the bottom 25% nationwide. Within TX, it ranks 952nd out of 1,177 nursing homes. In Dallas, it ranks 27th out of 33 facilities. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #11,424 nationally and RN hours rank #13,997 nationally (#1079 in TX). Our composite quality score of 60.5/100 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 Dallas, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/texas/dallas/