Nursing homes in Florida

What does a nursing home provide?

A nursing home provides 24-hour nursing care, rehabilitation therapy and help with all daily activities, under an AHCA nursing home license and, for most, Medicare and Medicaid certification.

AHCA licenses 41 nursing homes in Sarasota and Manatee counties with 4,598 beds; CMS rates 41 of them, 16 with four or five stars overall (Care Compare data as of October 1, 2026).

How are Florida nursing homes rated?

CMS rates certified nursing homes from one to five stars overall and for health inspections, staffing and quality measures on Care Compare, using inspections Florida surveyors conduct for CMS.

Our pages show CMS's ratings as CMS publishes them, with staffing hours and turnover beside the local median.

Who pays for nursing home care?

Medicare pays up to 100 days of skilled care after a qualifying hospital stay, Florida Medicaid pays long-term stays for eligible residents, and the rest is private pay at Florida medians of about $340 a day semi-private.

See Medicaid long-term care.

How do I compare nursing homes in Sarasota and Manatee?

Compare CMS's staffing rating and reported nurse hours per resident per day, staff turnover, the latest inspection's deficiency count and any fines, then visit at a shift change.

Our nursing home pages show each figure beside the two-county median.

How many Sarasota and Manatee nursing homes are inside life plan communities?

CMS flags the nursing homes located inside continuing care retirement communities; in the two counties those include the health centers at several of the OIR-listed campuses, which often give priority to their own residents.

See the life plan community profiles for each campus's licensed units.

What is the difference between short-term rehab and long-term nursing home care?

Short-term rehab follows a hospital stay and aims to get the patient home, usually paid by Medicare for up to 100 days while skilled care is needed; long-term care is for people who need nursing indefinitely, paid privately or by Medicaid once the resident qualifies.

The same building often does both. CMS publishes separate short-stay and long-stay quality ratings for each home, shown on our facility pages, so look at the one that matches your parent's stay.

Where is nursing homes licensed in Sarasota and Manatee?

Here is how AHCA's records distribute nursing homes licenses between the two counties; agencies have no bed count.