Skilled Nursing Care
We provide short-term and long-term skilled nursing care to help patients recover and rehabilitate after traumatic injury or illness.
Our skilled nursing facilities offer 5-star quality care awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with all private rooms.
When a patient is admitted to one of our skilled nursing facilities, they can expect to receive an individualized, rehabilitation-focused plan of care to help them achieve their highest level of recovery.
Our skilled nursing locations
Bartram Crossing
Bartram Crossing is on a beautiful 115-acre campus in Bartram Park, providing short and long-term skilled nursing care and therapy. Guests can expect three individual neighborhoods with private rooms and common areas, an expansive state-of-the-art therapy gym, courtyards, peaceful walking paths and lakes.
University Crossing
University Crossing is located on the main Brooks Rehabilitation campus off Beach Blvd. near University Blvd. in Jacksonville, Florida. This three-story, 82,000 sq. ft. facility has 111 beds and serves patients needing both short and long-term nursing care and rehabilitation.
Skilled care team
Your medical care is overseen by physiatrists, doctors who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The team may also include:
- Internal medicine physicians/nurse practitioners on-site
- Nurses (RN, LPN, CNA) with specialized training in rehabilitation
- Physical, occupational and speech therapists as needed
- Case manager on-site to assist with discharge back to the community
- Registered dietitian/nutritionist
- Recreation activities manager
- Psychology services
- Access to a network of specialists available as needed, including podiatry, dentistry and optometry
Services provided
Our skilled nursing facilities offer a wide range of essential clinical services, including but not limited to:
- Post medical-surgical assessment and management
- Wound care services provided by certified wound care specialists, including negative pressure wound therapy
- Intravenous (IV) hydration and antibiotic therapy
- Medication management
- Balance and fall prevention
- Blood sugar monitoring and treatment
- Gastrostomy (GT) feeding
- Oxygen and nebulizer treatments
- Foley and suprapubic catheter management
- Drain management
- Enteral nutrition
- Bladder and bowel training programs
- Patient and family education
- Assistance with activities of daily living
Award-winning care
Brooks Rehabilitation is honored that its two skilled nursing facilities, Bartram Crossing and University Crossing, are among the elite 19% in the country that earned a “High Performing” rating, the highest possible achievement, on the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Nursing Homes list.
Request patient care
Brooks’ system of care accepts multiple types of insurance as well as Medicare and Florida Medicaid. We also provide self-pay options when insurance no longer covers treatment.
Brooks partners with health care systems locally, statewide, nationally and internationally — accepting referrals from most acute hospitals and physicians.