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Nursing home abuse lawyer help in Palm Beach County, Florida

If a parent or loved one was injured, neglected, hospitalized, or died after care in a Palm Beach County nursing home, this page helps your family organize the local facility records, warning signs, evidence questions, and Florida reporting resources before requesting legal help.

Senior Justice Help is not a law firm. We connect public nursing home records, family timelines, and lawyer-search help so families can ask better questions.

Direct answer

Use this county page to find the facility, then narrow to the city and records.

If you know the county but not the exact public-record path, start here. Find the city, open the facility profile, write down what changed with your loved one, and compare the public records with the care plan, incident report, hospital records, photos, and family timeline.

Start with the county, then narrow to the city and facility

How families should use this Palm Beach County page

County pages are useful when a family knows the general area but still needs to identify the exact facility, compare nearby homes, or understand whether local public records show warning signs. The goal is not to accuse every facility. The goal is to connect public records with the resident-specific facts.

Find the facility

Use the city and facility lists below to locate the nursing home where the injury, decline, or hospital transfer happened.

Compare public signals

Look for complaint deficiencies, one-star inspections, fines, abuse icon, staffing indicators, and recent survey dates.

Match records to the injury

Then compare those signals with the care plan, incident report, nursing notes, hospital records, photos, and family timeline.

County risk signals

Public CMS indicators across Palm Beach County

These county-level numbers are public-record context. They should be used after the family identifies the facility and the resident-specific injury or decline.

CMS-listed facilities

54

Certified beds

6163

Facilities with fines

21

CMS abuse icon

3

Complaint deficiencies

24

One-star inspections

7

Cities in this county

Local city pages in Palm Beach County

City pages narrow the search to local nursing homes and are built for searches such as nursing home abuse lawyer help in a specific Florida city.

Facilities to review first

Profiles in Palm Beach County with stronger CMS follow-up signals

These are not accusations. They are facilities in this county where public CMS fields such as abuse icon, complaint deficiencies, fines, or low inspection ratings make the profile worth comparing first.

Facility directory

Nursing homes in Palm Beach County

How reviews work

Delray Beach, Florida

ABBEY DELRAY SOUTH

1717 HOMEWOOD BLVD

Overall 4Def 13Beds 90

Boca Raton, Florida

AVANTE AT BOCA RATON, INC.

1130 NW 15TH STREET

Overall 1Def 19Beds 144

Lake Worth, Florida

AVANTE AT LAKE WORTH, INC.

2501 N A ST

Overall 1Def 20Beds 138

West Palm Beach, Florida

AVIATA AT CORAL BAY

2939 S HAVERHILL RD

Overall 3Def 14Beds 120

Green Acres, Florida

AVIATA AT GREENACRES

6414 13TH RD S

Overall 2Def 8Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

AVIATA AT WEST PALM BEACH

5065 WALLIS ROAD

Overall 2Def 13Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

BEACH BREEZE REHAB AND CARE CENTER

1626 DAVIS RD

Overall 2Def 16Beds 120

Boca Raton, Florida

BOCA CIRCLE REHABILITATION CENTER

7225 BOCA DEL MAR DRIVE

Overall 2Def 14Beds 120

Boca Raton, Florida

BOCA RATON REHABILITATION CENTER

755 MEADOWS ROAD

Overall 2Def 11Beds 120

Boynton Beach, Florida

BOULEVARD REHABILITATION CENTER

2839 S SEACREST BLVD

Overall 4Def 7Beds 167

Boynton Beach, Florida

BOYNTON BEACH REHABILITATION CENTER

9600 LAWRENCE RD

Overall 4Def 10Beds 168

Delray Beach, Florida

Cascades Health and Rehabilitation Center

2105 SW 11TH COURT

Overall 3Def 7Beds 100

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

CHATSWORTH AT PGA NATIONAL

347 HIATT DRIVE

Overall 5Def 1Beds 62

West Palm Beach, Florida

COLONIAL SKILLED NURSING FACILITY LLC

2090 N CONGRESS AVE

Overall 4Def 10Beds 30

West Palm Beach, Florida

DARCY HALL OF LIFE CARE

2170 PALM BEACH LAKES BLVD

Overall 2Def 14Beds 220

Riviera Beach, Florida

EDWARD J HEALEY REHABILITATION AND NURSING CENTER

5101 WEST BLUE HERON BLVD

Overall 5Def 1Beds 120

Boca Raton, Florida

ENCORE AT BOCA RATON REHABILITATION AND NURSING CE

7300 DEL PRADO CIRCLE SOUTH

Overall 3Def 16Beds 154

Lake Worth, Florida

FINNISH-AMERICAN VILLAGE

1800 SOUTH DRIVE

Overall 5Def 3Beds 45

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

GARDENS COURT

3803 PGA BOULEVARD

Overall 5Def 2Beds 120

Pahokee, Florida

GLADES HEALTH CARE CENTER

230 SOUTH BARFIELD HIGHWAY

Overall 3Def 7Beds 120

Lantana, Florida

HAMLIN PLACE OF BOYNTON BEACH

2180 HYPOLUXO ROAD

Overall 4Def 3Beds 120

Delray Beach, Florida

HARBOURS EDGE

401 E LINTON BLVD

Overall 4Def 7Beds 54

Boca Raton, Florida

HEALTH CENTER AT SINAI RESIDENCES

21044 95TH AVENUE SOUTH

Overall 5Def 0Beds 60

Boynton Beach, Florida

HEARTLAND NURSING & REHAB CENTER

3600 OLD BOYNTON ROAD

Overall 4Def 9Beds 120

Boynton Beach, Florida

ISLES OF BOYNTON NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

3001 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE

Overall 3Def 11Beds 180

West Palm Beach, Florida

JOSEPH L MORSE HEALTH CENTER INC THE

4847 FRED GLADSTONE DRIVE

Overall 5Def 0Beds 230

Jupiter, Florida

JUPITER REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE CENTER

17781 THELMA AVE

Overall 2Def 14Beds 120

Lake Worth, Florida

LAKE WORTH REHABILITATION CENTER

1201 12TH AVENUE SOUTH

Overall 2Def 11Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

LAKESIDE HEALTH CENTER

2501 N AUSTRALIAN AVENUE

Overall 4Def 2Beds 107

Boca Raton, Florida

LEGACY AT BOCA RATON REHABILITATION AND NURSING CE

6363 VERDE TRAIL

Overall 4Def 7Beds 180

West Palm Beach, Florida

LOURDES-NOREEN MCKEEN RESIDENCE FOR GERIATRIC CARE

315 S FLAGLER DR

Overall 4Def 14Beds 132

Jupiter, Florida

LUXE AT JUPITER REHABILITATION CENTER (THE)

674 PIONEER ROAD

Overall 1Def 16Beds 129

Wellington, Florida

LUXE AT WELLINGTON REHABILITATION CENTER THE

10330 NUVISTA AVENUE

Overall 2Def 7Beds 120

Lake Worth, Florida

MEDICANA NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

1710 LAKE WORTH ROAD

Overall 3Def 10Beds 116

Boca Raton, Florida

MENORAH HOUSE

9945 CENTRAL PARK BLVD N

Overall 3Def 15Beds 120

Lake Park, Florida

NORTH LAKE CARE CENTER AND REHAB

750 BAYBERRY DRIVE

Overall 4Def 9Beds 85

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Nursing Center at La Posada, The

3600 MASTERPIECE WAY

Overall 2Def 6Beds 40

Lake Worth, Florida

PALM BEACH NURSING CENTER

4405 LAKEWOOD ROAD

Overall 3Def 16Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

PALM GARDEN OF WEST PALM BEACH

300 EXECUTIVE CENTER DRIVE

Overall 3Def 5Beds 176

Lake Worth, Florida

PINE TRAIL NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

4445 PINE FOREST DR

Overall 2Def 18Beds 52

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

PROSPER HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

11375 PROSPERITY FARMS ROAD

Overall 2Def 13Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

Rehabilitation Center of The Palm Beaches, The

301 NORTHPOINTE PARKWAY

Overall 4Def 5Beds 85

Royal Palm Beach, Florida

ROYAL PALM BEACH HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

600 BUSINESS PARK WAY

Overall 3Def 9Beds 120

Boca Raton, Florida

STRATFORD COURT OF BOCA RATON

6343 VIA DE SONRISA DEL SUR

Overall 5Def 8Beds 60

Lake Worth, Florida

TERRACES OF LAKE WORTH CARE CENTER AND REHAB

1711 6TH AVENUE SOUTH

Overall 4Def 10Beds 91

Delray Beach, Florida

THE TERRACE OF DELRAY BEACH NURSING AND REHABILITA

5430 LINTON BLVD

Overall 4Def 13Beds 120

Boynton Beach, Florida

VENTURA HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

7900 VENTURE CENTER WAY

Overall 3Def 13Beds 99

Lantana, Florida

VI AT LAKESIDE VILLAGE

2782 DONNELLY DRIVE

Overall 5Def 4Beds 60

Juno Beach, Florida

WATERFORD, THE

601 UNIVERSE BLVD

Overall 4Def 4Beds 60

Delray Beach, Florida

WEST DELRAY NURSING & REHAB CENTER

16200 S JOG ROAD

Overall 1Def 19Beds 120

West Palm Beach, Florida

WESTGATE HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

2300 VILLAGE BLVD

Overall 3Def 8Beds 120

Boca Raton, Florida

WILLOWBROOKE COURT AT ST ANDREWS ESTATES

6152 N VERDE TRAIL

Overall 4Def 8Beds 89

Boca Raton, Florida

WILLOWBROOKE COURT SKILLED CARE CENTER - EDGEWATER

23305 BLUE WATER CIRCLE

Overall 5Def 0Beds 60

Boca Raton, Florida

YAMATO NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER

375 NW 51ST STREET

Overall 2Def 10Beds 180

Records families should request

A county search is only useful if it leads to the right resident records.

Care plan and care-plan history
Fall, skin, nutrition, hydration, wandering, and medication risk assessments
Incident report, witness statements, and family-notification notes
Nursing notes, CNA flow sheets, treatment records, and assignment sheets
Hospital transfer records, ER records, imaging, labs, and discharge papers
Photos, texts, voicemail, portal messages, and the family timeline

Florida law and county-level research

Florida legal sources for Palm Beach County nursing-home questions

County pages should connect local facility records with the legal and regulatory sources families actually need. These sources explain resident rights, civil enforcement, AHCA complaints, ombudsman help, and timing concerns.

Florida Statutes § 400.022

Florida nursing-home resident rights

Florida law lists nursing-home resident rights, including dignity, privacy, communication, grievance rights, access, and rights involving health, safety, and personal care.

Use this when a loved one was ignored, isolated, not kept clean, not told what was happening, or when family communication and access became a problem.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 400.023

Florida civil enforcement for resident rights

Florida law addresses civil actions related to nursing-home resident rights. The specific legal theory, parties, damages, deadlines, and proof requirements depend on the facts.

Use this as the legal starting point when a serious injury, hospitalization, or death may be connected to violated resident rights. A Florida lawyer should evaluate the details.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 400.0233

Florida presuit notice and claims evaluation

Florida law describes a presuit notice and claims-evaluation process for nursing-home resident-rights and negligence claims, including a 75-day evaluation period, tolling provisions, informal discovery, settlement response, and mediation.

Use this as a reason not to wait or guess at the deadline. A Florida lawyer can identify the right prospective defendants, preserve records, serve notice correctly, and calculate filing timing from the actual facts.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 400.147

Florida adverse incidents and risk management

Florida law addresses nursing-home internal risk management, quality assurance, incident review, corrective action, and adverse incident reporting.

Use this when a fall caused fracture, brain or spinal injury, transfer to a more acute level of care, death, or other serious harm. Ask what internal incident review, corrective action, or reportable-event process was triggered.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 400.0234

Florida resident records and presuit proof

Florida law addresses the availability of facility records for investigating resident-rights violations and defenses, including consequences when complete resident records are not provided as required.

Use this as a reason to request records in writing and preserve proof of the request. Wound cases often depend on the chart: skin assessments, care plans, turning records, wound measurements, physician orders, and hospital records.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 400.0236

Florida nursing-home limitation periods

Florida law has specific limitation and repose language for damages actions under nursing-home law, including discovery and concealment issues that can be fact-specific.

Use this as a warning not to wait on a Stage 3, Stage 4, unstageable, infected, or fatal wound. A Florida lawyer should calculate timing from the actual facts, not a generic website summary.

Florida Legislature

Florida Statutes § 95.11

Florida limitation periods

Florida limitation periods can depend on claim type, injury date, discovery facts, death, pre-suit requirements, and other case-specific issues.

Use this as a warning not to wait. Do not assume the deadline from a website. A Florida lawyer should calculate it from the actual facts.

Florida Legislature

AHCA health care facility complaint portal

Florida AHCA facility complaints

AHCA provides a health care facility complaint portal for licensed Florida health care facilities, including nursing homes.

Use this for safety concerns, facility reporting, and regulatory review. A complaint is separate from a civil case, so families should preserve records before and after filing.

Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

Florida Ombudsman Program

Florida Long-Term Care Ombudsman

The ombudsman program works to resolve complaints and advocate for residents in long-term care facilities.

Use this when the concern involves resident rights, communication, discharge pressure, care-plan meetings, access, dignity, or unresolved facility complaints.

Florida Department of Elder Affairs

Medical evidence and injury patterns

Medical issues to compare across Palm Beach County facilities

The same public facility signal can matter differently depending on the injury. A pressure injury, fall, sepsis event, medication problem, choking event, or dehydration decline points to different records and different medical questions.

CDC stroke signs and symptoms

Stroke warning signs require emergency action

CDC identifies sudden balance or walking trouble, vision change, facial or one-sided weakness, speech or understanding difficulty, and severe unexplained headache as stroke warning signs. CDC instructs people to call 911 and note when symptoms first appeared.

Compare these warning signs with the resident's baseline, nursing and CNA notes, neurological observations, vital signs, blood sugar checks, physician notification, 911 call, EMS report, and hospital arrival record.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

American Stroke Association TIA guidance

Temporary stroke symptoms still need emergency assessment

The American Stroke Association explains that transient ischemic attack symptoms may disappear but can warn of a later stroke and still require urgent medical evaluation.

Use this when a facility says the resident improved, returned to baseline, or no longer needed transfer. Ask when symptoms began and ended and what emergency evaluation occurred.

American Stroke Association

Stroke referrals from nursing homes

Nursing-home stroke referrals can be delayed and diagnostically difficult

A retrospective study found that suspected strokes referred from nursing homes included many stroke mimics, while prehospital delay was a major reason recanalization treatment was withheld. The study supports careful emergency evaluation rather than assuming every sudden change is or is not a stroke.

Use this to frame both sides fairly: staff cannot diagnose stroke from appearance alone, but diagnostic uncertainty makes a prompt emergency response and accurate last-known-well timeline especially important.

PubMed, National Library of Medicine

AHRQ pressure injury prevention resources

Pressure injuries and wound deterioration

Pressure injuries are patient-safety events that require more than a quick visual check. AHRQ frames prevention around comprehensive skin assessment, standardized risk assessment, care planning, repositioning, support surfaces, nutrition, moisture management, and prompt action when skin changes appear.

Ask for the admission skin assessment, Braden-style risk scores if used, daily skin checks, turning and repositioning records, wound measurements, wound photos, treatment orders, nutrition records, incontinence-care records, infection notes, and transfer records.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

42 C.F.R. § 483.25(b)

Pressure-ulcer prevention and treatment duties

Federal quality-of-care rules specifically address skin integrity. Facilities must provide care consistent with professional standards to prevent pressure ulcers unless clinically unavoidable, and residents with pressure ulcers must receive necessary treatment to promote healing, prevent infection, and prevent new ulcers.

Use this when the facility says a bed sore was unavoidable. Ask what risk assessment, prevention plan, offloading, wound treatment, infection monitoring, and care-plan changes were documented before and after the wound appeared.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

CMS Appendix PP F686

Pressure injury staging and wound documentation

CMS survey guidance explains pressure-injury staging and wound monitoring. Stage 3 and Stage 4 wounds involve full-thickness tissue loss, and unstageable wounds can hide depth because slough or eschar covers the wound bed. CMS guidance also describes documentation such as location, stage, length, width, depth, undermining, drainage, odor, pain, wound bed, edges, and surrounding tissue.

Use this when reviewing Stage 3, Stage 4, unstageable, infected, draining, foul-smelling, painful, or worsening wounds. Ask for weekly wound measurements, dressing-change notes, wound-care consults, orders, photos if used, and records showing whether the plan changed when the wound worsened.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Federal nursing-home standards

Federal standards that help families organize questions

Federal long-term-care rules help translate a family's concern into record requests: care plan, nursing services, quality of care, infection control, medication safety, and abuse or neglect prevention.

42 C.F.R. § 483.10

Resident rights

Federal nursing-home rules address resident dignity, self-determination, access to information, visitation, grievances, and participation in care planning.

Use this when the issue involves ignored family questions, restricted access, missing information, retaliation concerns, or a resident who was not treated with dignity.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

42 C.F.R. § 483.12

Freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation

Federal rules prohibit abuse, neglect, exploitation, and misappropriation of resident property, and require facilities to develop policies for prevention, reporting, and investigation.

Use this when the concern involves physical abuse, sexual abuse, staff violence, resident-on-resident assault, unexplained injuries, neglect, or a report that was not handled seriously.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

42 C.F.R. § 483.21

Comprehensive person-centered care planning

Federal rules require comprehensive care plans based on resident assessments, with services designed to meet medical, nursing, mental, and psychosocial needs.

Use this when a facility says an injury was unavoidable. Ask what the care plan required before the incident and what changed afterward.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

42 C.F.R. § 483.25

Quality of care

Federal quality-of-care rules address a facility's obligation to provide care and services that help residents attain or maintain their highest practicable well-being.

Use this for falls, pressure injuries, nutrition, hydration, mobility decline, infection concerns, avoidable pain, or a sudden change that staff did not escalate.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

42 C.F.R. § 483.35

Nursing services

Federal rules require sufficient nursing staff and licensed nursing services to meet resident needs based on resident assessments and care plans.

Use this when records mention short staffing, unanswered call lights, missed turning, missed toileting, delayed response, or no one watching a high-risk resident.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

42 C.F.R. § 483.45

Pharmacy services and medication safety

Federal pharmacy rules address medication regimen review, unnecessary drugs, psychotropic drugs, gradual dose reductions where applicable, and medication error rates.

Use this for sedation concerns, missed medications, wrong dose, anticoagulants, insulin, seizure medication, psychotropics, adverse drug events, or unexplained confusion.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

Warning signs to compare with this county's facility data

Start with what your family actually saw.

Public facility records matter most when they connect to the resident condition, timeline, and medical outcome. These guides explain common signs families ask about before they know the legal words.

Florida resources and citations

Where this county information comes from

This page uses public federal and Florida sources so families can verify facility records directly and avoid relying only on marketing, star ratings, or word-of-mouth.

Medicare Care Compare nursing home profiles

Federal nursing home profiles with inspection results, quality measures, staffing information, and ownership details.

CMS nursing home data

CMS datasets for nursing home inspections, deficiencies, penalties, staffing, ownership, and quality measures.

Federal nursing home requirements

Federal participation requirements for long-term care facilities, including resident rights, care planning, nursing services, and quality of care.

Florida Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

Florida program that receives and works to resolve complaints involving residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and adult family care homes.

File a Florida health care facility complaint

Florida AHCA health care facility complaint portal for concerns involving licensed health care facilities, including nursing homes.

Florida nursing home resident rights

Florida Statutes section 400.022, listing nursing home resident rights.

Florida nursing home civil enforcement statute

Florida Statutes section 400.023, addressing civil actions connected to nursing home resident rights.

Florida nursing home presuit notice and claims evaluation

Florida Statutes section 400.0233, addressing presuit notice, investigation, claims evaluation, informal discovery, settlement response, and mediation in nursing home resident-rights and negligence claims.

Florida limitation periods

Florida Statutes section 95.11, listing limitation periods for several kinds of civil actions. Families should confirm the deadline for a specific claim with a Florida lawyer.

Senior Justice Help is a public-information and facility-research website. We are not a law firm, medical provider, government agency, or nursing home regulator. We may help families understand what kind of lawyer to contact or connect with legal resources, but this site does not provide legal or medical advice.

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Written by: Senior Justice Help Editorial Team, Family questions and nursing home records research team

Editorial review: Aron Solomon, JD, Legal commentator, writer, and editor

Last updated: June 23, 2026

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