GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER SKILLED NURSING UNIT is a Medicare-certified nursing home located in FORT MYERS, FL. CMS overall rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Google rating: 3.2 out of 5 from 43 reviews. Accepts both Medicare and Medicaid.
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Medicaid Certified
Ownership: Government - Hospital district
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This nursing home is located in Lee County and serves residents in the FL area.
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Excellent Skilled Nursing Facility – Gulf Coast Medical Center I had a wonderful experience at the Skilled Nursing Facility at Gulf Coast Medical Center. The entire staff was kind, professional, and always attentive to every detail. The nurses and caregivers truly care about their patients and go above and beyond to make sure everyone feels comfortable and well cared for. The facility is always clean, organized, and welcoming — you can tell they take great pride in maintaining a safe and pleasant environment. From the front desk to the medical team, everyone treated me with respect and compassion. I highly recommend this facility to anyone looking for quality care and a supportive atmosphere. Thank you to the whole team for your dedication and excellent service!
Thank you to the supervisor on Friday 8/8/25 at 1800. She gets 5 five Star ⭐ review, all other aspects of care, nursing and dietary do not. I sent my dad a care package as he said the food was horrible and he needed snacks. He is 86 years old alert and oriented and is miserable there, he stated he lays in bed most of the day at a rehab? The nursing staff took away the package and said he could not have it, because he is on insulin. Despite his primary doctor affiliated with Lee Health DCing it months ago. At 86 years old he can have anything he wants, he deserves nothing but to enjoy his life. He has the right to make his own decisions about his health good or bad, that is his right. The nurse denied that basic right, choosing to make a choice for him in the most infantile manner. Do better. Have compassion and use your critical thinking, you could have reached out to the Doctor and got an order to let him have it or at minimum respected his ability to make choices. There were a multitude of opportunities that could have been chosen, not the one that took the patients rights away. Little things matter.
This is a nice facility, but runs a skinny staff. Do not recommend a “patient still on catheter” going in, unless you yourself are knowledgeable about how to clean and maintain. She ended up getting a raging infection had to go back to ER because catheter issues ( not maintaining/took out w/o permission) creating complications. Being An Advocate is a must!!! Nurses in general are to keep your loved ones alive, follow doctors, notes, not to necessarily keep them comfortable. They are left alone a lot of the time. Mom has been in here before, after a hip replacement surgery. Had a horrible experience with a “traveling nurse” leaving her in excruciating pain for 5 hours. JUST STAY CLOSE TO PATIENT! Although 80% of the nurses are compassionate and wonderful the other 20% I feel, are just going through the motions. Having said that, I feel they were very thorough in their assessments and have compassionate and Caring PT department
We did not have a good experience. My Grandpa went into the hospital after falling and a week later was sent to the Gulf Coast Skilled Nursing Facility to get stronger before he went home. He began to rapidly decline and because my and Mom and I live in another city, we drove down when he stopped answering the phone. When I got there at 11 am he was not able to sit up or respond to me. I immediately got the Nurse Practioner. She said they hadn't been in yet because it was a Monday. They called 911, and ironically the patient in the next room was going back to the ER as well. When the EMT arrived, the nursing staff could not answer basic questions like "what medication is he on? Does he has a fever? (he did have a 102 fever they didn't know about)". He was diagnosed with sepsis and died of infection in the hospital 4 days later. We were told this facility was the best and that it was 5 stars. I wish I would have looked at the reviews before he went there.
My mom had a couple of weeks of rehab here and the experience was excellent. I have had various loved ones in rehab facilities and this was far and away the best facility I've seen. The PT and OT was thorough and challenging, and was offered just about every day. The staff treated my mom very well and she really recovered well. Mom left there as healthy as she has been for years. I am very grateful for all they did for my mom. She has nothing but good things to say and good memories.
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This nursing home is Medicare certified. Most skilled nursing services are covered by Medicare Part A.
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