Fonteum Care Compare · Florida · Ocala
Nursing homes in Ocala, Florida: 10 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Ocala — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Ocala: 3.4 / 5
How Ocala compares
Ocala vs the Florida state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.4
State avg 3.3 / 5
+0.1 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
2.8
State avg 3.3 / 5
-0.5 vs state
Facilities — this city
10
694 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 10 rated facilities above.
Where Ocala sits
All 10 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Ocala sit in Marion County, Florida. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Ocala, Florida
Life Care Center Of Ocala
2800 Sw 41st St · CCN 105999 · For profit - Individual
120 certified beds · 112.9 avg daily residents · 3.93 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 15, 2026
5
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Bridgewater Park Health & Rehabilitation Center
9280 South West 81st Ct · CCN 106115 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 114.5 avg daily residents · 4.49 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 6, 2024
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Ocala Health And Rehabilitation Center
1201 Se 24th Rd · CCN 105321 · For profit - Limited Liability company
180 certified beds · 169.8 avg daily residents · 3.86 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 18, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Palm Garden Of Ocala
2700 Sw 34th St · CCN 105562 · For profit - Limited Liability company
180 certified beds · 170.9 avg daily residents · 3.52 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey June 12, 2025
4
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Ocala Oaks Rehabilitation Center
3930 E Silver Springs Blvd · CCN 105724 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 110.1 avg daily residents · 3.42 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 14, 2025
4
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
The Lodge Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center
635 Se 17th Street · CCN 105196 · For profit - Limited Liability company
99 certified beds · 93.7 avg daily residents · 3.83 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey February 27, 2025
3
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Timberridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
9848 Sw 110th St · CCN 105717 · For profit - Corporation
180 certified beds · 158.1 avg daily residents · 3.72 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey February 4, 2026
3
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Avante At Ocala, Inc
2021 Sw 1st Ave · CCN 106084 · For profit - Corporation
133 certified beds · 120.7 avg daily residents · 3.36 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey October 17, 2024
3
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Aviata At Arbor Springs
1501 Se 24th Rd · CCN 105465 · For profit - Limited Liability company
180 certified beds · 159.7 avg daily residents · 3.58 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey August 22, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Hawthorne Center For Rehabilitation And Healing Of
4100 Sw 33rd Ave · CCN 105602 · For profit - Limited Liability company
120 certified beds · 111.8 avg daily residents · 3.73 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 16, 2025
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 Ocala 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.