The most serious citations on this record
Every nursing-home citation carries a scope-and-severity grade from A (least serious) to L (most serious). The five highest-graded citations at Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center are:
F-0600 · May 2, 2025 · Grade K — Immediate jeopardy
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Found during a complaint investigation. Status: Deficient, Provider has date of correction · correction date May 2, 2025
F-0689 · May 2, 2025 · Grade K — Immediate jeopardy
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Found during a complaint investigation. Status: Deficient, Provider has date of correction · correction date May 2, 2025
F-0689 · March 6, 2024 · Grade G — Actual harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Found during a complaint investigation. Status: Deficient, Provider has date of correction · correction date April 6, 2024
K-0521 · June 5, 2024 · Grade F — Potential for more than minimal harm
Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Status: Deficient, Provider has date of correction · correction date July 5, 2024
K-0918 · August 25, 2022 · Grade F — Potential for more than minimal harm
Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.
Status: Deficient, Provider has date of correction · correction date September 16, 2022
What surveyors cited, theme by theme
Grouping the citations by subject shows whether a home's problems are isolated or concentrated in one part of care. At Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center, 12 subject areas appear across health and fire-safety inspections.
Quality of life and daily care
12 citations between August 25, 2022 and May 2, 2025. The most serious was graded K — immediate jeopardy, affecting a pattern across residents. Surveyors found a situation that caused — or was likely to cause — serious injury, harm, impairment, or death, and that needed immediate correction. 4 of these citations came out of complaint investigations. Correction record: 12 citations show a recorded correction date.
This group covers the basics of daily care — help with eating, bathing, toileting, repositioning, and timely treatment. Repeated citations here often match what families notice first: call lights unanswered, soiled briefs, missed care.
F-0689 · May 2, 2025 · Grade K — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
F-0689 · March 6, 2024 · Grade G — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
F-0698 · June 5, 2024 · Grade E — Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation
4 citations between January 14, 2025 and November 12, 2025. The most serious was graded K (immediate jeopardy). 4 of these citations came out of complaint investigations. Correction record: 4 citations show a recorded correction date.
These citations go to the core duty to protect residents. Ask how the home screens and trains staff, how allegations are investigated, and whether the same staff or unit appears in more than one report.
F-0600 · May 2, 2025 · Grade K — Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
F-0610 · November 12, 2025 · Grade D — Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
F-0607 · February 27, 2025 · Grade D — Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems
2 citations between March 4, 2021 and August 25, 2022. The most serious was graded F (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 2 citations show a recorded correction date.
Ask the facility what this citation required it to change, when the correction was verified, and what monitoring is in place so the same failure does not recur.
K-0918 · August 25, 2022 · Grade F — Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.
K-0914 · March 4, 2021 · Grade D — Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing.
Services
1 citation between June 5, 2024 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded F (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Ask the facility what this citation required it to change, when the correction was verified, and what monitoring is in place so the same failure does not recur.
K-0521 · June 5, 2024 · Grade F — Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Fire, smoke, and emergency safety
4 citations between March 4, 2021 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded E (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 4 citations show a recorded correction date.
Life-safety citations cover alarms, sprinklers, exits, and evacuation readiness. Ask for the date each item was corrected and whether the local fire authority re-inspected.
K-0324 · June 5, 2024 · Grade E — Provide properly protected cooking facilities.
K-0353 · August 25, 2022 · Grade D — Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
K-0321 · March 4, 2021 · Grade D — Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
Infection prevention and control
1 citation between November 12, 2025 and November 12, 2025. The most serious was graded E (potential for more than minimal harm). 1 of these citations came out of complaint investigations. Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Infection citations matter because infections are a leading cause of hospital transfer and death in nursing homes. Families should ask how the home tracks infections, isolates sick residents, and tells families when an outbreak starts.
F-0880 · November 12, 2025 · Grade E — Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Administration and leadership
1 citation between June 5, 2024 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded E (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Administrative citations suggest the problem sits with management systems, not one staff member. Ask who is responsible for quality oversight and what the home's own quality committee changed afterward.
F-0850 · June 5, 2024 · Grade E — Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds.
Physical environment and safety
1 citation between March 4, 2021 and March 4, 2021. The most serious was graded E (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Environmental citations cover the building itself — safe water temperatures, clean and working equipment, hazard-free spaces. Ask what was repaired, when, and what checks are in place now.
F-0921 · March 4, 2021 · Grade E — Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Resident rights
2 citations between June 5, 2024 and January 14, 2025. The most serious was graded D (potential for more than minimal harm). 1 of these citations came out of complaint investigations. Correction record: 2 citations show a recorded correction date.
Rights citations cover dignity, choice, privacy, grievances, and being told about changes in condition or care. Ask how the home notifies family of changes and how grievances are logged and answered.
F-0552 · January 14, 2025 · Grade D — Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
F-0578 · June 5, 2024 · Grade D — Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Assessments and care planning
1 citation between June 5, 2024 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded D (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Care-plan citations mean the written plan did not match the resident's known risks. Ask whether the care plan changed after each fall, wound, infection, or hospital return — or whether the same plan stayed in place while the resident declined.
F-0641 · June 5, 2024 · Grade D — Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Miscellaneous
1 citation between June 5, 2024 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded D (potential for more than minimal harm). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Ask the facility what this citation required it to change, when the correction was verified, and what monitoring is in place so the same failure does not recur.
K-0741 · June 5, 2024 · Grade D — Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed.
Nursing and Physician Services
1 citation between June 5, 2024 and June 5, 2024. The most serious was graded B (minimal or no harm potential). Correction record: 1 citation shows a recorded correction date.
Ask the facility what this citation required it to change, when the correction was verified, and what monitoring is in place so the same failure does not recur.
F-0732 · June 5, 2024 · Grade B — Post nurse staffing information every day.
How to read the severity grades
CMS grades combine how many residents were affected with how much harm occurred. Grades J–L are immediate jeopardy: a situation that caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death. Grades G–I mean a resident was actually harmed. Grades D–F mean no harm was found but the failure could have caused more than minimal harm, and A–C carry only minimal-harm potential. The second dimension matters too: the grade also tells you whether surveyors saw an isolated case, a pattern, or a facility-wide problem.
Survey and penalty timeline
Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center appears in CMS data on 12 survey dates between March 4, 2021 and November 12, 2025. Complaint surveys happen because someone reported a problem; standard surveys are the routine inspections every home receives.
November 12, 2025
Complaint health survey — 2 citations, worst grade E (potential for more than minimal harm)
May 2, 2025
Complaint health survey — 2 citations, worst grade K (immediate jeopardy)
February 27, 2025
Complaint health survey — 1 citation, worst grade D (potential for more than minimal harm)
January 14, 2025
Complaint health survey — 3 citations, worst grade D (potential for more than minimal harm)
June 5, 2024
Standard health survey — 10 citations, worst grade E (potential for more than minimal harm)
June 5, 2024
Fire-safety survey — 3 citations, worst grade F (potential for more than minimal harm)
March 6, 2024
Complaint health survey — 1 citation, worst grade G (actual harm)
January 25, 2024
Complaint health survey — 1 citation, worst grade E (potential for more than minimal harm)
August 25, 2022
Standard health survey — 2 citations, worst grade E (potential for more than minimal harm)
August 25, 2022
Fire-safety survey — 2 citations, worst grade F (potential for more than minimal harm)
March 4, 2021
Standard health survey — 1 citation, worst grade E (potential for more than minimal harm)
March 4, 2021
Fire-safety survey — 3 citations, worst grade D (potential for more than minimal harm)
Penalties imposed
January 14, 2025 — Fine of $9,580
January 14, 2025 — Fine of $161,457
June 5, 2024 — Fine of $6,032
June 5, 2024 — Fine of $6,180
January 25, 2024 — Fine of $46,853
How Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center compares with peer homes
Raw citation counts mean more in context. The table below compares Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center with the median reviewed facility in Sarasota County (14 homes in this research set) and across Florida (156 homes), using the same CMS data. On health citations alone, Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center sits above 46% of its reviewed county peers — below the county middle, though its most serious grades still matter more than the count.
Measure
This home
Sarasota Co. median
Florida median
Health citations on record
23
23
30
Citations from complaint investigations
10
7
7
Citations at actual-harm level or worse
3
3
3
Immediate-jeopardy citations
2
2
2
Total fines in CMS penalty records
$230,102
$53,358
$59,961
Penalty records (fines + payment denials)
5
2
2
What families should ask Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center
- Ask why CMS flags Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center with its abuse icon, which citations produced the flag, and what staffing or supervision changes followed.
- Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the quality of life and daily care citations — most recently F-0689 on May 2, 2025 — and the records showing the fix held.
- Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation citations — most recently F-0600 on May 2, 2025 — and the records showing the fix held.
- Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the infection prevention and control citations — most recently F-0880 on November 12, 2025 — and the records showing the fix held.
- Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the administration and leadership citations — most recently F-0850 on June 5, 2024 — and the records showing the fix held.
- Ask what conduct led to the fines — CMS records 5 totalling $230,102, the most recent dated January 14, 2025 — and what changed afterward.
- What changed in the resident's condition, and when did staff at Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center first document the change?
- Were recent complaint-related citations at Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center connected to the same kind of issue your family noticed?
Records to preserve
Connect this record to what your family saw
A citation record is context. The warning sign your family noticed is the starting point for a resident-specific review — match the two, then preserve the records listed above. Start with how facility research works.
Warning sign
Bed sores
Warning sign
Falls
Warning sign
Bruises
Warning sign
Infections
Facility research
Inspection deficiencies
Facility research
Civil penalties
Facility research
Abuse citations
Facility research
Complaint surveys
CMS facility facts
CMS certification number
105155
Legal business name
FI-WALDEMERE, LLC
Ownership type
Non profit - Other
Provider type
Medicare and Medicaid
First approved for Medicare/Medicaid
October 1, 1971
Chain name
FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR LONG-TERM CARE
Certified beds
144
Average residents per day
126.8
Overall CMS rating
1 star
Health inspection rating
1 star
Staffing rating
4 star
Reported nurse staffing hours per resident day
3.48755
Total nursing staff turnover
47.7%
Public records are a starting point, not a conclusion
This profile of Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center uses official CMS provider data as a research starting point. It does not state that Sarasota Health And Rehabilitation Center abused or neglected any resident. A citation, fine, or rating becomes meaningful only when it is compared with the resident's own chart, the facility's explanation, and source documents with dates and outcome status.
Citation and penalty detail on this page comes from the CMS Provider Data health-deficiency, fire-safety, and penalties datasets, pulled October 12, 2026. Figures describe the facility's public inspection record; they do not by themselves prove what happened to any individual resident.
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Injury and neglect guides
When a Florida care injury may involve negligence
Inspection records show what regulators found; they do not by themselves prove a legal claim. If your family is looking back at a serious injury or death in a Florida nursing home or care facility, these guides explain the deadlines, procedures, records, and questions that apply in Florida:
- Stroke misdiagnosis lawyer information in Florida
- Falls and fractures in Florida care facilities: legal information
- Pressure injuries and bedsores: Florida legal information
- Sepsis from infection in Florida care facilities: legal information
- Medication errors in Florida care facilities: legal information
- Wrongful death in a Florida care facility: legal information
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