BEST CARE SENIOR LIVING AT SARASOTA LLC — Assisted Living in Sarasota, Florida
Best Care Senior Living at Sarasota LLC is a 65-bed assisted living facility in Sarasota, Florida. Its CareQED Score is 10 out of 100 (Serious concerns), based on Florida AHCA inspection findings. AHCA records include 3 serious (Class 1 or 2) violations. Care options include memory care, 24-hour on-site nursing. It accepts Medicaid and VA benefits. It has operated under Best Care Senior Living at Sarasota LLC for less than a year.
Serious findings are present and weigh heavily. The facility has a long history of citations focused on resident care, medication management, staffing standards, training, background screening, and food service; most past citations have been corrected, though a small number remain open. Inspection activity has eased compared with earlier spikes, but the recent pattern still shows periodic serious findings rather than a sustained clean record.
CareQED Score
CareQED Score: 10/100 — Serious concerns. This is CareQED's summary of Florida AHCA's published inspection findings, not an AHCA rating. How the Score works.
Inspection & Enforcement (AHCA)
- Class 1 violations: 3
- Class 2 violations: 0
- Class 3 violations: 3
- Class 4 violations: 0
- Unclassified: 0
- Substantiated complaints: 3
- Sanctions/final orders: 0
- Serious findings: 3
Care & Payment
- Memory care offered
- 24-hour on-site nursing
- Accepts Medicaid
- Accepts VA benefits
Activities & Services
- Nurse availability: Direct 24hr, 3rd Party Part-Time
- Activities: Arts and Crafts, Dancing, Exercise Classes, Games/Cards, Music Programs, Shopping, Social Events/Outings, Theater and Movies
- Special programs & services: Memory Care, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy
Licensed beds: 65 · For-Profit · Operator since 2026 · 4450 8TH STREET, SARASOTA, FL, 34232 · (941) 377-3231
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Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), as of 2026-06-21. Not affiliated with AHCA; verify directly. Methodology.
Inspection History (Florida AHCA)
Last inspected Apr 2026. 40 operational inspection(s) on record, including 16 complaint investigation(s) of which 8 substantiated. 60 deficiency citation(s), 97% corrected. Recurring findings: Resident Care (cited in 7 inspections), Medication (cited in 6 inspections), Staffing Standards (cited in 5 inspections), Training (cited in 5 inspections), Background Screening Clearinghouse (cited in 4 inspections), Food Service (cited in 3 inspections), Records (cited in 2 inspections), Extended Congregate Care (cited in 2 inspections).
Apr 28, 2026 · Standard
- Medication (Class 3) — open
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class 3) — open
Dec 5, 2025 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 1) — corrected Dec 2025
- Staffing Standards (Class 1) — corrected Dec 2025
- Resident Care (Class 1) — corrected Dec 2025
Jul 24, 2025 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jan 23, 2024 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Feb 2024
Mar 16, 2021 · Standard
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class 4) — corrected Apr 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2021
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected May 2021
- Emergency Management Planning (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2021
Dec 16, 2020 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jan 27, 2020 · Complaint
- Training (Class 4) — corrected Mar 2020
- Records (Class 4) — corrected Mar 2020
Dec 9, 2019 · Complaint
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2020
- Background Screening-compliance Attestation (Class 4) — corrected Mar 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Extended Congregate Care (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class 4) — corrected Jan 2020
Sep 4, 2019 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
May 2, 2019 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Feb 6, 2019 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Sep 17, 2018 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 18, 2018 · Standard
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class 4) — corrected Sep 2018
Jun 18, 2018 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Oct 2018
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Oct 2018
Mar 12, 2018 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Training (Class 4) — corrected Jun 2018
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Extended Congregate Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Background Screening; Prohibited Offenses (Class 4) — corrected Jun 2018
- Extended Congregate Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Training (Class 4) — corrected Jun 2018
- Training (Class 4) — corrected Jun 2018
- Extended Congregate Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2018
Nov 15, 2017 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Sep 20, 2017 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
May 22, 2017 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2017
- Medication (Class 2) — corrected Sep 2017
May 10, 2017 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
May 26, 2016 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
May 26, 2016 · Standard
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2016
Mar 30, 2016 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected May 2016
Dec 9, 2015 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 9, 2015 · Complaint
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
Jun 9, 2015 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Mar 31, 2015 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Dec 29, 2014 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Sep 4, 2014 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Sep 4, 2014 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 18, 2014 · Standard
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2014
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2014
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2014
Mar 26, 2014 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Mar 26, 2014 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Dec 10, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Oct 28, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Jul 10, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
May 6, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Mar 20, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Dec 3, 2012 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Jul 26, 2012 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Dec 2012
- Fiscal (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Fiscal (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
Jul 26, 2012 · Standard
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012