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Vivo Healthcare University
3.4 (85 reviews)Jacksonville, FL
Assisted Living and Memory Care in Jacksonville, with spaces to feel at home and support for your next chapter.
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Vivo Healthcare University in Jacksonville, Florida, provides skilled nursing care through two listed options: short-term post-acute rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing. Rehabilitation is described for people recovering from orthopedic surgery or stroke, while long-term nursing represents care over a different time frame. Both options are provided in a skilled nursing setting, rather than an independent-living or assisted-living arrangement. The available information does not specify room layouts or whether accommodations are private or shared.
Licensed nursing staff and therapists provide nursing care and rehabilitation services. The facility also coordinates care for people with complex medical conditions. Its team uses individualized treatment plans and adjusts care protocols as needs change, so plans are described as responsive to a person’s changing needs rather than fixed. The profile does not outline a standard sequence or timeline for short-term recovery or long-term care.
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Along with rehabilitation, the listed services include wound care management and IV therapy. These details give a clearer picture of the clinical services identified for the facility, beyond the general skilled nursing and therapy offerings. They are examples of listed services, not an indication that every patient receives each treatment. The information does not specify therapy schedules, individual procedures or expected recovery timelines.
Family support includes care conferences, progress updates and discharge planning. These are ways for family members to take part in discussions during a stay and follow changes in a patient’s progress. Discharge planning addresses the transition after the skilled nursing stay. The listing also notes visitor-friendly hours, common areas for visits and on-site parking, giving families practical information about coming to the facility.
The facility is on Jacksonville’s Southside, near the University of North Florida campus. Nearby medical facilities named in the listing include Baptist Medical Center Beaches, UF Health Jacksonville and Memorial Hospital Jacksonville; the information does not describe formal affiliations with them. The location is accessible from I-95 and J. Turner Butler Boulevard, routes that connect the Southside with other Jacksonville areas, including Downtown, the Beaches, Orange Park and Mandarin.
The surrounding area includes the Deerwood and Regency neighborhoods, restaurants along Philips Highway and the Tinseltown entertainment district. St. Johns Town Center, with shopping and dining, is also nearby, as is Losco Regional Park. These are area destinations rather than activities or services identified as part of the facility. Together, the location details describe a Southside setting with medical resources, dining, shopping and outdoor space in the broader community.
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12-16 hour nursing
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- 12-16 hour nursing
- 24-hour call system
- 24-hour supervision
- Activities of daily living assistance
- Air-conditioning
- Assistance with bathing
- Assistance with dressing
- Assistance with transfers
- Beauty salon
- Cable
- Community operated transportation
- Community-sponsored activities
- Computer center
- Concierge services
- Diabetes diet
- Dining room
- Fitness programs
- Fitness room
- Fully furnished
- Gaming room
- Garden
- Housekeeping and linen services
- Kitchenettes
- Meal preparation and service
- Medication management
- Mental wellness program
- Move-in coordination
- Outdoor space
- Planned day trips
- Private bathrooms
- Resident-run activities
- Restaurant-style dining
- Scheduled daily activities
- Small library
- Special dietary restrictions
- Telephone
- Transportation arrangement
- Transportation arrangement (non-medical)
- Wellness center
- Wifi
Care options available
Memory Care
Specialized support for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
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Nursing and rehabilitation services for people who need a higher level of care.
Learn more“My experience at Vivo was nurturing and restoring. I needed PT/OT after a hospital stay. The staff was professional and knowledgeable where I needed it the most. Shout out to the PT/OT team. They are the best. The nurses and CNA's helped me a great deal. My stay at Vivo was successful and healing.”
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3.4 · 85 reviewsMy experience at Vivo was nurturing and restoring. I needed PT/OT after a hospital stay. The staff was professional and knowledgeable where I needed it the most. Shout out to the PT/OT team. They are the best. The nurses and CNA's helped me a great deal. My stay at Vivo was successful and healing.
My wife has been in Vivo University for over a year and a half. The place is horrible. The food they serve to residents is downright disgusting.They pay no attention to requests for low carb meals. They are constantly understaffed, and the employees are poorly monitored. My wife is totally blind so she gets neglected a lot. She has to beg and wait hours for a diaper change. She gets handled roughly during diaper changes and bed baths. When I call she seems to be always crying and tells me she wants to die. DO NOT PUT YOUR LOVED ONE IN THIS PIG STY!
My father had to stay here. Admittingly when I first arrived to visit I was taken back. Sorry but the smell, the chaos, wheelchair avoidance tag, but as I visited daily the charm of the staff really sold me. The smell disappeared or my nose adjusted, not sure, but it seemed temporary and what can you do? It's just part of life. What a freaking job they have, we should all be more gracious to those who do these very difficult jobs. A special part of heaven is meant for them. Thank you to their staff for making awkward situations of having a human body, just easier. You lose some humility in…
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My father had to stay here. Admittingly when I first arrived to visit I was taken back. Sorry but the smell, the chaos, wheelchair avoidance tag, but as I visited daily the charm of the staff really sold me. The smell disappeared or my nose adjusted, not sure, but it seemed temporary and what can you do? It's just part of life. What a freaking job they have, we should all be more gracious to those who do these very difficult jobs. A special part of heaven is meant for them. Thank you to their staff for making awkward situations of having a human body, just easier. You lose some humility in these places, but they smile and do it every single day and don't make you feel ashamed. It's just part of their daily process. I am eternally grateful for each one of them. They definitely took care of him well. Also the front desk women every single one of them, completely welcoming and friendly. The therapy team were also very understanding and very kind to him. I flew back to ohio confident he is taken care of by all the staff. Very grateful for the push he needs too. Are there some that need smiles more? Mistakes over small stuff, it happens! Sure! But that's a tough, tough job, we can give grace in those instances. We all pray we won't land in these places, but there always full! Reality of life.
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This place does not serve special diets for kidney patients or diabetics. Renal diets my menu wasx pork back 7 slices, peanut butter Jelly sandwiches, dark meat chicken, ham. Whole milk . Etc. The staff all don’t wear name tags , if the do it’s flipped backwards. Nurses don’t ask if your currently take meds, they just serve them. One tried to give me seizure medication, I never had an episode one day of my 63 year old life. Drug addicts are across the hall from rehab patients. The best part of my stay was occupational and physical therapy! If you can’t be and advocate for yourself, don’t go there. I have pictures to prove the bad nutrition. The nutrition person told me I can have package hame, turkey because all foods are processed. My reply a chicken ln the coop is not a processed chicken. Don’t leave your family members in this place, it’s horrific.
Vivo Healthcare on University Blvd is an unprofessional environment. The deterioration of my mom's health and well-being began there and was then finished deteriorating by Vivo Healthcare Orange Park where she died. This facility is not a top-notch, due to its ill-mannered nursing personnel who argue with patients and loved ones alike. Some of the employees hired there obviously need to go back to further their professional training. I would not recommend you sending there your elderly-loved ones or anyone who matters to you.
The Vito on University is a very good facility. The staff is caring and professional. The facility is clean and well kept. The food is even good. My loved one has received great care and attention at this facility.
This place is terrible. Got released from hospital and got into this rehab. Once I got a room there was fresh pee all in my bed.
If I could give negative stats I would! I don’t understand how this facility is even still operating! They don’t care about the long term residents there and don’t give any care when those residents end up in the hospital due to their negligence!!!!! And to try and get someone on the phone is an absolute NIGHTMARE!!!!
What families highlight
- Compassionate and attentive nursing and CNA staff
- Highly capable rehabilitation (PT/OT) program
- Supportive social work and discharge planning
- Engaged and accessible administration and leadership
- Friendly and helpful front-desk and housekeeping staff
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