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Paul, It was a pleasure meeting you. My two months here was nothing short of terrific! From housekeeping to nurses CNA's staff, dining room staff to therapy, your rehab facility is great! Thank you

Good morning, my dad was recently a patient at NuVista living Tampa. His nurse's aide/CNA was Krystal. I want to take this opportunity to tell you what a Godsend she was to my dad. She treated my dad with respect and dignity. She was absolutely wonderful and my dad thought very, very highly of her. She never made him feel 'lesser'. She gave him the confidence and esteem he needed to excel to his full potential. I want to state how much easier this made his stay, and how much it helped him achieve his rehab goals. The entire staff was more than wonderful to him, my mom and me. I want to thank you all for the fantastic opportunity and Good Friday for the family Easter luncheon. It was so special, he felt like a superstar and it made him feel exceptional. The week after Easter, dad's health went downhill, and he was transferred to St. Joseph's. He passed away quietly in his sleep on April 13, 2013. Luckily, we were able to get him home, if even for a few short hours. I feel his stay at NuVista gave him (and us) some additional time, and allowed him to perform some activities I believe he didn't think he'd be able to do. The treatment he received was phenomenal, and allowed us to see him at his best. Again, I'd like to thank the entire staff at NuVista, but especially Krystal, for the dignity and respect shown to my dad. Sincerely,

Everyone at NuVista was nicer and more friendly than the next. They take such pride in the facility and my dad, its so clean and fresh. My Father made friends while he stayed there that he still socializes with in Tampa. NuVista, thank you for an amazing experience.

As a doctor, I understand that its what happens the 2 weeks after your hip or knee replacement that gets you back to going quickly and keeps you going long term. NuVista’s rehabilitation protocol is the best I have ever seen. There equipment is state of the art but more importantly, there PT staff is highly skilled and trained to get you home quickly. NuVista gets it.

My mother has been in the acute rehabilitation section of this facility for about a week. This is a very elegant and expensive facility. It looks roughly like one of those enormous over scale mansions in "new wealth" parts of Wellington. It is very well constructed, tasteful and conspicuously expensive. As a result, it is a genuinely nice place to visit. I enjoyed strolling the corridors, checking out the architectural details and smiling at the staff. A lot of this is for show, of course. People who are sick enough to be in one of these places usually don't wander the corridors or enjoy the fancy lounges or pick up the books that are lying around for them to read. A friend of mine who is very religious was turned off by the obvious extravagance of the facility. But none of this costs very much compared to the actual price tag of having 24x7 nursing care available for residents. So if it helps market the facility and makes people like me more comfortable (as it does, in both cases), there's nothing wrong with it. My mother had an acute stroke and was initially treated at the Wellington hospital on Forest Hill. During her last couple of days at the hospital, her health was declining. When she came to the facility, she was inactive and unresponsive. This is apparently typical of cases like her, when they are moved; they gradually recover over time. That was exactly what happened to my mother. She was unable to speak or respond when she came in; now, five days later, she has a very limited ability to speak. At all times, even when her situation looked hopeless to me, the nursing staff was great. They worked with her to try and get her to respond. My mother, who was an ex-doctor, now has her brain totally addled, but once out of her non-response phase, she said two things: "They have everything" and "they don't do much". But what she doesn't say is that she's desperate to go home. Every day I visited her in the hospital after her stoke, she said how miserable she was and how much she wanted to go home. That talk has stopped once she moved to Nu Vista/Wellington. The staff goes out of their way to pay attention to her, and it looks like they really care about the residents and their fates. Those residents who are in decent shape seem to like living there. I see a lot of smiles and hear vibrant conversations between residents. The dining room looks like a five-star restaurant, and service and food quality look very good. I attended a rehab session with her, and the rehab chap was a constantly smiling black guy who was continuously trying to get her to engage - and she was responding positively. I discussed her case with a doctor there, and he seemed no more or less capable than the doctors at the Wellington hospital. No doctors seem to know what to do about her case and how to help, but I suspect that is more a reflection on her case than the facilities. I have a friend whose mother was placed in a care facility in Pennsylvania. When I visited with him, it appeared that the staff was significantly less competent and less concerned with their residents than Nu Vista. Furthermore, residents there appeared glum and life joyless. Compared to that facility - and it was supposedly a top-quality one in Pennsylvania - NuVista is pretty much paradise. I wonder if the other reviewers have an unrealistic view of what can be expected of a care facility. Quite honestly I think they are doing a significantly better job at dealing with her than the hospital, spending more time with her, and yet her care here is much less expensive than at a hospital. Now, I am not a medical professional, and know next to nothing about health. My mother is resting comfortably, she is gradually recovering, and I suspect that's the best I can hope for. My suspicion is that, although they "don't do much", they know the optimal amount that can actually be done, given my mother's situation and they do it, with a smile.