Riverwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1984-11-01. 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 (904) 964-6220 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Riverwood Healthcare & 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 (1★), 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 75.4/100, placing it #5734 of 14703 facilities nationally and #380 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 Riverwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 19 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 23 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 52 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 4 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 1 minute 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 61.1%. 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 $17,036. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $17,036, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 92.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Riverwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center ranks 5734th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 75.4/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within FL, it ranks 380th out of 694 nursing homes. In Starke, it ranks 2nd out of 2 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #10,879 nationally and RN hours rank #11,159 nationally (#606 in FL). Our composite quality score of 75.4/100 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 Starke, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/florida/starke/