Overview of Westminster Village – Spanish Fort Acts Retirement Services has run Westminster Village – Spanish Fort for 47 years now, out of a three-story building at 500 Spanish Fort Blvd in the Bridgehead neighborhood of Spanish Fort, Alabama. Joseph Meadows is the Executive Director. This isn’t a single-purpose nursing home. It’s part of a continuing care retirement community, which means nursing home care, assisted living, memory care, hospice, home care, and independent living all live under the same organization.
Don’t expect to walk to much because the Walk Score is 27. That is somewhat walkable at best, and most errands here mean getting in a car.
Average length of stay runs about 107 days, closer to four months than a permanent placement, and the community accepts both Medicare and private pay, the two payment paths that fit a short-term rehab stay best. Nursing staff provide close to 5 hours and 49 minutes of total nursing care per resident each day. On-site, residents have access to licensed therapists, a nurse practitioner wellness center, and round-the-clock medical oversight, plus respite care and short-term rehab for people who need a defined recovery window rather than an open-ended stay.
Occupancy sits at 65% in a 60-bed building with studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom options. Residents also have an Active Resident Council, a standing group that meets to weigh in on policy and daily life rather than just live with whatever’s decided for them. State inspections here have tended to focus on routine areas like dietary and food service and resident rights and protections, the kind of themes that come up across nursing homes broadly.
Nearly five decades in the same location, paired with a rehabilitation-heavy care model and a resident group with an actual say in how things run, makes Westminster Village read less like a long-term holding facility and more like a structured stop on the way back to independence for a lot of residents.
Pricing updated on October 13th, 2026
