Lee Memorial Hospital/Gulf Coast Medical Center/HealthPark Garner Top Ratings
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Oct. 28, 2020) -- Lee Memorial Hospital Skilled Nursing Unit, Gulf Coast Medical Center Skilled Nursing Unit and HealthPark Care Center earned recognition as a 2020-21 Best Nursing Home as evaluated by U.S. News & World Report. All three of Lee Health’s skilled nursing sites earned “High Performance” ratings for excellence in short-term rehabilitation care. Additionally, HealthPark Care Center earned a “High Performance” rating in long-term care.
“We are honored to receive the “high performing” ratings from U.S. News & World Report,” said Leslie Vollmer, Senior Administrator of Skilled Nursing Services at Lee Health. “Every day our compassionate team strives to be a national leader in quality skilled nursing. This recognition is an endorsement that our commitment and dedication to provide our patients with the highest level of quality care is working.”
The Best Nursing Home finder features ratings on both long-term and short-term care. The Long-Term Care Rating aims to provide prospective residents who need help with daily activities, and their families, with analysis and information regarding the quality of care provided by nursing homes. The rating includes data on staffing, success in preventing ER visits and pneumonia vaccination rates, among other metrics. The short-term rating incorporates measures of quality including consistency of registered nurse staffing, use of antipsychotic drugs and success in preventing falls.
The Best Nursing Homes ratings reflect U.S. News’ exclusive analysis of publicly available data using a methodology defined by U.S. News that evaluates factors that it has determined most greatly impact patient and resident care, safety, and outcomes. In 2020, U.S. News evaluated data on more than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities. Only 21 percent of nursing homes were rated as ‘High Performing’.
Additional information about each nursing home rated and about the methodology used in the ratings is available online at http://health.usnews.com/best-nursing-homes.
For more information, visit LeeHealth.org.