Courtyards Care Center

    1900 Mercy Dr, Orlando, FL, 32808
    3.8 · 48 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    3.0

    Great therapy, inconsistent care overall

    I had a mixed stay. Many staff, nurses and therapists (Jorge included) were caring, friendly and helped my rehab - the place can feel family-like and therapy is excellent. But I also saw inconsistent nursing/CNA care, long shower waits, patients left unattended, poor communication and billing/document problems, plus spotty cleanliness (urine odor, pests reported). I'd consider them for short-term rehab, but I'd stay very vigilant about meds, paperwork and care.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.81 · 48 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.6
    • Staff

      3.9
    • Meals

      2.6
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate nurses and CNAs
    • Motivational and effective OT/PT therapy
    • Respectful and friendly frontline staff
    • Frequent resident activities and outings (movie night, bingo, cards)
    • Attentive maintenance and housekeeping reported
    • Kitchen director making efforts to improve meals
    • Caring and helpful admissions staff
    • Responsive communication with families (in some cases)
    • Successful rehab outcomes and timely discharges home
    • Effective wound care (named nurse Jorge noted)
    • Long‑tenured, family‑like team culture
    • Strong, well‑regarded therapy/rehab department
    • Residents enjoy entertainment and daily programming
    • Multiple reviewers reported a clean facility
    • Positive medical management reports (e.g., diabetes control, recovery from surgeries)
    • Access to physicians and specialists noted
    • Professional staff and quality activities
    • Caring managers and helpful directors
    • Effective laundry services
    • Warm, welcoming atmosphere on arrival
    • Residents feeling at home and wanting to stay
    • High standards of care reported by some families
    • Secure locked unit praised by at least one reviewer
    • Good patient rapport with therapists
    • Reasonable pricing reported by at least one reviewer
    • Friendly daily greeters (example: Mable)

    Cons

    • Unfriendly or uncaring staff reported by multiple reviewers
    • Persistent urine and feces odors in rooms
    • Reports of roaches/cockroaches and poor overall cleanliness
    • Patients left wet or unattended; long delays for showers
    • High nurse turnover and inconsistent staffing
    • Allegations of neglect, including days without showers and weight loss
    • Poor communication and unresponsiveness from staff and management
    • Billing disputes and high out‑of‑pocket bills ($13,000–$15,000 reported)
    • One‑day insurance denial incidents and insurance‑related therapy halts
    • PT/OT services halted or limited due to insurance/documentation
    • Lack of transparency and honesty in reporting clinical and billing information
    • Social worker or staff withholding information or records
    • Requests for billing/care documents not fulfilled
    • Families not given tours or opportunities to view activities/amenities before admission
    • Visitation restrictions imposed by administrators
    • Reports of theft (e.g., shoes) and medication/catheter errors
    • Unattended patients and reports of no nursing station presence
    • Confinement/locked inside 24/7 concerns raised
    • Food quality complaints (over‑seasoned, high‑fat, bad meals)
    • Long waits for services and care due to staffing or scheduling
    • HVAC/maintenance concerns (unchanged AC filters reported)
    • Infection risk concerns (shared bathrooms, COVID‑19 worries)
    • ER transfers and post‑discharge deaths alleged by reviewers
    • Neighbor and roommate issues in shared rooms
    • Management hanging up on callers or being unhelpful
    • Inconsistent experiences across patients—high variability in care
    • Specific staff initially rude (example: nurse Leyla) noted by reviewers
    • Serious allegation that facility should be closed from at least one reviewer

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in the reviews is deeply mixed and highly polarized. A significant portion of reviewers strongly praise the staff—particularly therapy teams, some nurses, CNAs, admissions personnel, and specific caregivers—citing compassionate treatment, effective occupational and physical therapy, successful rehab outcomes, and a warm, family‑like atmosphere. Many reviewers highlight frequent activities and outings (movie nights, bingo, card nights), attentive maintenance and laundry, and specific staff members who make positive impressions (examples: wound nurse Jorge, daily greeter Mable, a helpful admissions director). Several reviewers credit the facility with successful rehabilitation (hip replacement, neck fracture), good medical management (diabetes under control), and timely discharge back home, and call out the therapy/rehab department as a strong asset. Multiple comments also note that some parts of the center are clean and that residents enjoy entertainment and daily programming.

    However, an equally large and vocal set of reviews describe troubling operational and quality issues. Recurring and concrete complaints include pervasive urine and feces odors in rooms, reports of roaches/cockroaches, dirty conditions, and inconsistent housekeeping. Multiple reviewers describe neglectful care such as residents being left wet for extended periods or going days without showers, long waits for basic care tasks, and weight loss or perceived starvation in some patients. These accounts are often paired with reports of high nurse turnover, inconsistent staff performance, and a sense that some staff work only "for a paycheck." Several reports escalate to serious safety concerns: theft of personal items (shoes), catheter failures requiring ER visits, and allegations that families were not informed about incidents.

    Communication, transparency, and administrative responsiveness are dominant pain points. Numerous reviewers say management is unhelpful, hangs up on callers, or fails to supply requested billing and care documentation. There are specific allegations that social workers or staff withheld information, and at least one reviewer claims the therapy team was stopped due to insurance reporting, with PT/OT services halted. Billing and insurance issues appear repeatedly: one reviewer cited $13,000–$15,000 bills and a one‑day insurance denial that disrupted care; others describe anxiety about discharge finances and unmet requests for billing records. Visitors and families also report being denied tours or not shown activities and amenities prior to admission, and some describe visitation restrictions imposed by administrators.

    Facility operations and environment show sharp variability across reviewers. While some families reported a clean, odor‑free environment with good food and attentive housekeeping, others reported strong odors, pest infestations, dirty rooms, unchanged AC filters, and long shower queues (one report mentioned 24 people ahead). Food received mixed reviews: some described meals as adequate or improving (kitchen director making an effort), while others said offerings were over‑seasoned, high in fat, or inappropriate for medically restricted diets. Shared rooms and bathrooms raise infection‑risk concerns for some reviewers, including COVID‑19 related worries.

    Therapy and clinical care draw consistent praise from many reviewers but are also the subject of complaints tied to insurance or documentation problems. Several families gave five‑star ratings to therapists and credited the rehab team with rapid, safe returns home; wound care was singled out positively in at least one detailed account. Conversely, others felt physical therapy was inadequate or too shallow to meet recovery goals. This pattern—strong clinical pockets coexisting with administrative or operational failures—suggests variability in the resident experience that may depend on unit, shift, insurance status, or individual staff members.

    Taken together, the reviews depict a facility with notable strengths (a committed therapy/rehab staff, compassionate caregivers in many cases, robust activity programming, and some consistently positive personnel) alongside serious and recurring weaknesses in cleanliness, staffing consistency, safety incidents, communication, and billing transparency. The most severe reports—neglect, pests, billing crises, ER visits, and an alleged post‑discharge death—are outliers but significant and merit careful attention. Prospective residents and families should weigh both sides: verify current cleanliness and pest control measures, ask for written documentation of staffing ratios and therapy plans, request copies of billing policies and recent therapy/medical records, tour the specific unit and activities, and probe how the facility handles complaints, incident reporting, and transitions of care. For administrators, the pattern suggests priorities: strengthen infection control and housekeeping, stabilize nursing staff, improve transparency in billing and documentation, and enhance family communication and complaint resolution to reduce the marked variability in resident experiences.

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    About Courtyards Care Center

    Courtyards Care Center is a senior living community that provides 24-hour skilled nursing care, with licensed staff around day and night. The center has both high acuity care staffing and a specialized rehabilitation team, so residents get help with wound care, physical therapy, and sub-acute medical needs. This is a for-profit limited liability company, and it's part of a continuing care retirement community, which means people can move between different levels of care if their needs change. The team gives medication management and helps with bathing, dressing, getting in and out of bed or chairs, and other daily activities. Memory care services are available, along with incontinence support. The facility accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

    Rooms come furnished and have private bathrooms, air conditioning, kitchenettes, cable TV, telephones, and Wi-Fi or high-speed internet. Staff take care of housekeeping, laundry, and dry-cleaning. Dining services include a restaurant-style dining room, all-day meal options, and choices for special diets like allergy-sensitive or diabetic meals, all prepared by a professional chef. There's a 24-hour call system so residents can ask for help when they need it.

    Courtyards Care Center puts value on family involvement with family support, community-sponsored activities, and regular organized outings. There's a library, activity spaces, a fitness room, a spa or wellness area, a garden, and outdoor walking paths. People can find a movie theater, arts and music rooms, and a game area for recreation. Staff organize daily activities, social events, and even let residents run some programs themselves.

    Residents get transportation and parking services and can reach nearby hospitals and medical centers easily. The administration is easy to deal with, and staff try to help residents and families with health care needs and decisions. The building feels homely and safe, and a team-oriented atmosphere helps people feel part of the group. Courtyards Care Center focuses on helping residents feel comfortable and supported while providing medical care and daily assistance as needed.

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