Florida Nursing Home Compliance Guide
This compliance guide summarizes CMS-derived records for the 694 skilled nursing facilities listed in Florida. For the 687 facilities with linked history (687 of 694), there are 13,563 cited deficiencies, averaging 19.7 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 559 coded at Immediate Jeopardy severity. F-Tag and category counts describe the loaded records and do not predict a future survey.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in Florida
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 3,898 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 2,032 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 1,999 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 1,639 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 1,239 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 777 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in Florida
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 687 citations
- F-Tag F0684: Quality of Care — 660 citations
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 635 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 592 citations
- F-Tag F0695: Respiratory/Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning — 525 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 502 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 482 citations
- F-Tag F0584: Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment — 451 citations
- F-Tag F0842: Resident Records-Identifiable Information — 370 citations
- F-Tag F0677: ADL Care Provided for Dependent Residents — 363 citations
Sources and methodology
Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk aggregates citations present in the loaded Health Deficiencies records; it does not create CMS ratings or recommendations. See the editorial standards and methodology and 42 CFR Part 483.
More Florida Compliance Data
- Florida Nursing Home Scorecard
- Florida Compliance Benchmark
- Florida Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in Florida
Explore POCDesk — Free Nursing Home Compliance Tools
- SNF Scorecard — look up any facility's inspection record
- Nursing Home Compare Tool — side-by-side comparisons
- Skilled Nursing Near Me — find facilities by city & state
- Best Nursing Homes by State — ranked by inspection results
- Survey Tracker — recent CMS survey activity
- F-Tag Reference Guide — every CMS deficiency tag
- Plan of Correction (POC) Complete Guide
- Free AI POC Generator
- Plan of Correction Examples
- CMS Survey Preparation Guide
- Practical SNF Answers
- SNF Compliance Guides
- What Is Skilled Nursing Care?
Official Sources
POCDesk analyzes official government data. Verify any facility's record or read the underlying regulations at these primary sources:
- Medicare.gov Care Compare — CMS's official nursing home comparison tool
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — the raw nursing home inspection & deficiency datasets
- CMS Nursing Home Certification & Compliance — enforcement policy and the Special Focus Facility program
- 42 CFR Part 483 (eCFR) — the federal requirements of participation behind every F-Tag
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center — free advocacy help for residents and families