Fonteum Care Compare · Florida · Lakeland
Nursing homes in Lakeland, Florida: 12 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Lakeland — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Lakeland: 2.4 / 5
How Lakeland compares
Lakeland vs the Florida state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.4
State avg 3.3 / 5
-0.9 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
2.4
State avg 3.3 / 5
-0.9 vs state
Facilities — this city
12
694 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 12 rated facilities above.
Where Lakeland sits
All 12 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Lakeland sit in Polk County, Florida. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Lakeland, Florida
Florida Presbyterian Homes Inc
909 Lakeside Ave · CCN 105949 · Non profit - Church related
68 certified beds · 63 avg daily residents · 3.76 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey February 26, 2024
5
Overall
5
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Manor At Carpenters, The
1001 Carpenters Way · CCN 105660 · Non profit - Corporation
72 certified beds · 65.4 avg daily residents · 3.86 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 18, 2024
4
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Wedgewood Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center
1010 Carpenters Way · CCN 106002 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 116 avg daily residents · 3.29 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 19, 2024
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
The Club At Lake Gibson
855 Carpenters Way · CCN 106146 · For profit - Limited Liability company
120 certified beds · 117.5 avg daily residents · 3.50 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 30, 2025
3
Overall
1
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Lakeland Hills Center
610 E Bella Vista Dr · CCN 105283 · Non profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 118 avg daily residents · 3.13 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 28, 2023
2
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Vivo Healthcare Lakeland
1919 Lakeland Hills Blvd · CCN 105354 · For profit - Limited Liability company
185 certified beds · 166.7 avg daily residents · 3.56 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey June 26, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Breezy Hills Rehab And Care Center
5245 N Socrum Loop Rd · CCN 105482 · For profit - Limited Liability company
120 certified beds · 116.2 avg daily residents · 3.56 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 8, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Highlands Lake Center
4240 Lakeland Highlands Rd · CCN 105620 · For profit - Corporation
179 certified beds · 170.1 avg daily residents · 3.30 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 7, 2024
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Scott Lake Health And Rehabilitation Center
800 E County Rd 540a · CCN 106120 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 114.3 avg daily residents · 3.82 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey November 16, 2023
2
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Valencia Hills Health And Rehabilitation Center
1350 Sleepy Hill Rd · CCN 105301 · For profit - Limited Liability company
249 certified beds · 218.5 avg daily residents · 3.63 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 7, 2024
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Charming Lakes Rehab
2020 W Lake Parker Dr · CCN 105693 · For profit - Limited Liability company
120 certified beds · 112.6 avg daily residents · 3.53 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey August 21, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Bridgewalk On Harden Health And Rehabilitation, Ll
3110 Oakbridge Blvd E · CCN 106138 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 80.2 avg daily residents · 3.60 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey January 25, 2024
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Florida cities with nursing homes
Compare Lakeland with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.