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Nursing home abuse lawyer help in Pinellas County, Florida

If a parent or loved one was injured, neglected, hospitalized, or died after care in a Pinellas 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 Pinellas 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 Pinellas 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

65

Certified beds

7485

Facilities with fines

34

CMS abuse icon

10

Complaint deficiencies

41

One-star inspections

27

Cities in this county

Local city pages in Pinellas 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 Pinellas 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 Pinellas County

How reviews work

Saint Petersburg, Florida

ABBEY REHABILITATION AND NURSING CENTER

7101 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ST N

Overall 1Def 8Beds 132

Saint Petersburg, Florida

ADDINGTON PLACE AT COLLEGE HARBOR

4600 54TH AVE S

Overall 5Def 3Beds 52

Clearwater, Florida

ADVANCED CARE CENTER

401 FAIRWOOD AVE

Overall 4Def 11Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

ALHAMBRA HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER

7501 38TH AVE N

Overall 2Def 15Beds 60

Saint Petersburg, Florida

ALPINE HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

3456 21ST AVE S

Overall 2Def 12Beds 57

Saint Petersburg, Florida

APOLLO HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER

1000 24TH ST N

Overall 2Def 7Beds 99

Saint Petersburg, Florida

AVENTURA AT THE BAY

10300 4TH ST N

Overall N/ADef 23Beds 274

Largo, Florida

AVIATA AT BRYAN DAIRY

9035 BRYAN DAIRY RD

Overall 1Def 21Beds 158

Palm Harbor, Florida

AVIATA AT COUNTRYSIDE

3825 COUNTRYSIDE BLVD N

Overall 3Def 5Beds 120

Dunedin, Florida

AVIATA AT LAKESIDE OAKS

1061 VIRGINIA ST

Overall 2Def 8Beds 93

Oldsmar, Florida

AVIATA AT OLDSMAR

3865 TAMPA RD

Overall 1Def 18Beds 120

Clearwater, Florida

Aviata at Sand Key

1980 SUNSET POINT RD

Overall 2Def 17Beds 120

Seminole, Florida

AVIATA AT SEMINOLE

9393 PARK BLVD

Overall 1Def 19Beds 120

Safety Harbor, Florida

AVIATA AT THE HARBOR

1410 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ST N

Overall 2Def 7Beds 120

Palm Harbor, Florida

AVIATA AT THE PALMS

2600 HIGHLANDS BLVD N

Overall 1Def 14Beds 120

South Pasadena, Florida

AVIATA AT THE SEA - PASADENA

1820 SHORE DR S

Overall 2Def 11Beds 58

Saint Petersburg, Florida

BALANCED HEALTHCARE

4250 66TH ST N

Overall 1Def 8Beds 299

Saint Petersburg, Florida

BAY POINTE NURSING PAVILION

4201 31ST ST S

Overall 5Def 5Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

BAYSIDE CARE CENTER

811 JACKSON ST N

Overall 2Def 10Beds 92

Clearwater, Florida

BELLEAIR HEALTH CARE CENTER

1150 PONCE DE LEON BLVD

Overall 4Def 5Beds 120

Gulfport, Florida

BOCA CIEGA CENTER

1414 59TH ST S

Overall 2Def 13Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

Brighton Bay Center for Rehabilitation and Healing

10501 ROOSEVELT BLVD N

Overall 2Def 7Beds 120

Clearwater, Florida

CLEARWATER CENTER

1270 TURNER ST

Overall 1Def 14Beds 109

Saint Petersburg, Florida

CONCORDIA MANOR

321 13TH AVE N

Overall 1Def 8Beds 39

Saint Petersburg, Florida

EAGLE LAKE NURSING AND REHAB CARE CENTER

1100 66TH ST N

Overall 1Def 15Beds 59

Clearwater, Florida

EAST BAY REHABILITATION CENTER

4470 E BAY DR

Overall 4Def 6Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

EGRET COVE CENTER

550 62ND ST S

Overall 2Def 11Beds 120

Seminole, Florida

FREEDOM SQUARE HEALTH CARE CENTER

10801 JOHNSON BLVD

Overall 3Def 7Beds 116

Saint Petersburg, Florida

GOLFVIEW NURSING CENTER

3636 10TH AVE N

Overall 3Def 5Beds 56

Pinellas Park, Florida

GULF SHORE CARE CENTER

6767 86TH AVE N

Overall 4Def 5Beds 120

Pasadena, Florida

GULFPORT NURSING CENTER

1430 PASADENA AVE S

Overall 1Def 11Beds 126

Clearwater, Florida

GULFSIDE HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

1100 N PINE ST

Overall 2Def 12Beds 76

Clearwater, Florida

HARBOURWOOD POST-ACUTE AND REHABILITATION CENTER

549 SKY HARBOR DR

Overall 1Def 22Beds 120

Clearwater, Florida

Highland Pines Rehabilitation Center

1111 S HIGHLAND AVE

Overall 1Def 18Beds 115

Clearwater, Florida

KENSINGTON GARDENS REHAB AND NURSING CENTER

2055 PALMETTO ST

Overall 1Def 24Beds 150

Dunedin, Florida

LAKE HAVEN NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

1351 SAN CHRISTOPHER DR

Overall 1Def 15Beds 104

Saint Petersburg, Florida

LAURELLWOOD POST- ACUTE AND REHABILITATION CENTER

3127 57TH AVE N

Overall 2Def 6Beds 60

Saint Petersburg, Florida

LEXINGTON HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER

6300 46TH AVE N

Overall 3Def 14Beds 159

Saint Petersburg, Florida

MARION AND BERNARD L SAMSON NURSING CENTER

255 59TH ST N

Overall 3Def 13Beds 180

Dunedin, Florida

MEADOWPARK HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

870 PATRICIA AVE

Overall 4Def 7Beds 120

Belleair, Florida

MORTON PLANT REHABILITATION CENTER

400 CORBETT ST

Overall 5Def 5Beds 126

Saint Petersburg, Florida

NORTH HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER

1301 16TH ST N

Overall 4Def 4Beds 45

Largo, Florida

OAK MANOR HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION CENTER

3500 OAK MANOR LANE

Overall 4Def 3Beds 180

Palm Harbor, Florida

OAKPARK HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER

2851 TAMPA RD

Overall 3Def 13Beds 180

Clearwater, Florida

OAKS OF CLEARWATER, THE

420 BAY AVE

Overall 2Def 12Beds 60

Clearwater, Florida

PALM GARDEN OF CLEARWATER

3480 MCMULLEN BOOTH RD

Overall 2Def 11Beds 165

Largo, Florida

PALM GARDEN OF LARGO

10500 STARKEY RD

Overall 1Def 18Beds 140

Largo, Florida

PALM GARDEN OF PINELLAS

200 16TH AVE SE

Overall 1Def 15Beds 120

Tarpon Springs, Florida

PENINSULA HEALTH CENTER BY HARBORVIEW

900 BECKETT WAY

Overall 1Def 8Beds 120

Pinellas Park, Florida

PINELLAS PARK FL OPCO, LLC

8701 49TH ST N

Overall 1Def 10Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

PINELLAS POINT NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

5601 31ST ST S

Overall 2Def 7Beds 60

Clearwater, Florida

REGENCY OAKS HEALTH CENTER

2770 REGENCY OAKS BLVD

Overall 2Def 3Beds 60

Largo, Florida

SABAL PALMS HEALTH & REHABILITATION

499 ALTERNATE KEENE RD NE

Overall 2Def 5Beds 244

Saint Petersburg, Florida

SHORE ACRES CARE CENTER AND REHAB

4500 INDIANAPOLIS ST NE

Overall 3Def 8Beds 109

Saint Petersburg, Florida

SOUTH HERITAGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER

718 LAKEVIEW AVE S

Overall 1Def 15Beds 74

South Pasadena, Florida

SPRINGS AT BOCA CIEGA BAY

1255 PASADENA AVE S, SUITE C

Overall 2Def 12Beds 109

Palm Harbor, Florida

ST MARK VILLAGE

2655 NEBRASKA AVE

Overall 5Def 0Beds 80

Tarpon Springs, Florida

TARPON BAYOU CENTER

515 CHESAPEAKE DR

Overall 1Def 17Beds 114

Dunedin, Florida

THE CEDAR AT MEASE LIFE

910 NEW YORK AVE

Overall 5Def 0Beds 100

Largo, Florida

Tierra Pines Center

7380 ULMERTON RD

Overall 3Def 5Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

VIVO HEALTHCARE ST PETERSBURG

521 69TH AVE N

Overall 1Def 23Beds 96

Pinellas Park, Florida

VIVO HEALTHCARE GATEWAY

8600 US HWY 19 N

Overall 2Def 13Beds 120

Clearwater, Florida

WESTCHESTER GARDENS HEALTH & REHABILITATION

3301 N MCMULLEN BOOTH RD

Overall 4Def 9Beds 120

Saint Petersburg, Florida

WESTMINSTER SUNCOAST

1095 PINELLAS POINT DR S

Overall 2Def 11Beds 120

Seminole, Florida

WRIGHTS HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER

11300 110TH AVE N

Overall 4Def 3Beds 60

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 Pinellas 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 Pinellas 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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