Pinellas County

Nursing homes in Clearwater, Florida

8
rated one or two stars
5
with an immediate jeopardy finding
13 of 13
staffed below the research benchmark for the residents they have
$542,095
in federal fines since 2023 across these 13 homes

There are 13 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Clearwater. 8 of them are rated one or two stars, the lowest two grades Medicare gives. Medicare grades inspections on a curve inside each state, so those stars are a rank inside Florida, not a national score.

All 13 nursing homes in Clearwater

Every Medicare-certified nursing home with a Clearwater address. The labels on each card come from Medicare’s own records. What each one counts is below.

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Highland Pines Rehabilitation Center 1111 S Highland Ave, Clearwater 33756 · 115 beds Abuse or neglect citation5 immediate jeopardy findings2 findings of actual harm35% below expected staffing$196,670 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Regency Oaks Health Center 2770 Regency Oaks Blvd, Clearwater 33759 · 60 beds Abuse or neglect citation5 immediate jeopardy findings14% below expected staffing
2 out of 5
Palm Garden of Clearwater 3480 McMullen Booth Rd, Clearwater 33761 · 165 beds 4 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections27% below expected staffing$17,345 in federal fines
2 out of 5
Clearwater Center 1270 Turner St, Clearwater 33756 · 109 beds Special Focus Facility candidate3 immediate jeopardy findingsNo standard inspection in over 2 years36% below expected staffing$76,496 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Aviata at Sand Key 1980 Sunset Point Rd, Clearwater 33765 · 120 beds Abuse or neglect citation2 immediate jeopardy findingsNo standard inspection in over 2 years34% below expected staffing$163,898 in federal fines
2 out of 5
Harbourwood Post-Acute and Rehabilitation Center 549 Sky Harbor Dr, Clearwater 33759 · 120 beds Carries Medicare’s abuse warningAbuse or neglect citation3 findings of actual harm30% below expected staffing$65,599 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Kensington Gardens Rehab and Nursing Center 2055 Palmetto St, Clearwater 33758 · 150 beds No standard inspection in over 2 years27% below expected staffing$18,070 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Oaks of Clearwater, the 420 Bay Ave, Clearwater 33756 · 60 beds 18% below expected staffing
2 out of 5
Gulfside Health and Rehabilitation Center 1100 N Pine St, Clearwater 33756 · 76 beds No standard inspection in over 2 years21% below expected staffing$4,017 in federal fines
3 out of 5
Advanced Care Center 401 Fairwood Ave, Clearwater 33759 · 120 beds 28% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation 3301 N McMullen Booth Rd, Clearwater 33761 · 120 beds 22% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
East Bay Rehabilitation Center 4470 E Bay Dr, Clearwater 33764 · 120 beds No standard inspection in over 2 years20% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
Belleair Health Care Center 1150 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Clearwater 33756 · 120 beds 20% below expected staffing
4 out of 5

What the labels on each card mean

What a star means here

Medicare grades the inspection part of a star rating on a curve inside each state, so a star here is a rank against other Florida homes, not a national score. Medicare withholds the rating altogether from homes on its Special Focus Facility list, so a withheld rating is a warning, not missing data.

Short on staffing

The home reports fewer nurse and aide hours per resident per day than a published research benchmark expects for the residents it actually has. The benchmark is not a Medicare figure: we work it out from the home's own Medicare case-mix score using the CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is not a legal limit, and there is no federal minimum number of nursing hours per resident per day.

Immediate jeopardy

The most serious result an inspection can have. It means inspectors found a resident was in danger of serious harm or death. A finding of actual harm is the level below that. Both are counts of inspection tags across the last three inspection cycles on record, not counts of separate incidents. Fines are federal penalties recorded between 2023 and 2025.

Abuse, counted two ways

There are two official measures and they do not agree. Medicare puts an abuse warning on a home's profile when abuse was found and a resident was harmed, or when it happened twice, and takes the warning off after a year. Separately, inspectors cite homes under the abuse, resident property and involuntary seclusion tags, and those findings stay on the record. A home can carry one label, both, or neither, so the two are labeled separately on every card.

The Special Focus list

Medicare's list of homes with a persistent record of serious problems. Each state gets a small number of places on it. A candidate is a home in line for one of those places.

Pinellas County has 65 Medicare-certified nursing homes. The 52 outside Clearwater are in Saint Petersburg (23), Largo (6), Dunedin (4), Palm Harbor (4), Pinellas Park (3), Seminole (3), South Pasadena (2), Tarpon Springs (2), Belleair (1), Gulfport (1), Oldsmar (1), Pasadena (1) and Safety Harbor (1).