SOUTH DEERING RETIREMENT HOME, INC. — Assisted Living in Miami, Florida
South Deering Retirement Home, INC. is a 6-bed assisted living facility in Miami, Florida. Its CareQED Score is 0 out of 100 (Serious concerns), based on Florida AHCA inspection findings. AHCA records include 1 serious (Class 1 or 2) violation. The record also includes 4 state sanctions or final orders, a formal enforcement signal. It accepts Medicaid. It has operated under South Deering Retirement Home, INC for about 28 years.
Serious findings are present and drive the low score, including past state sanctions that remain part of the facility record. The issues recur across staffing standards, records, resident care, the physical plant, medication handling, and admissions; while most past citations have been corrected, several remain open and the recent inspection pattern shows some improvement from a larger spike earlier but ongoing problems persist.
CareQED Score
CareQED Score: 0/100 — 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: 0
- Class 2 violations: 1
- Class 3 violations: 31
- Class 4 violations: 0
- Unclassified: 0
- Substantiated complaints: 0
- Sanctions/final orders: 4
- Serious findings: 1
Care & Payment
- Accepts Medicaid
Activities & Services
- Nurse availability: 3rd Party Part-Time
- Activities: Arts and Crafts, Games/Cards, Shopping
Licensed beds: 6 · For-Profit · Operator since 1998 · Fines: $7,000 · 9730 SW 160 STREET, MIAMI, FL, 33157 · (786) 293-2816
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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 Mar 2026. 21 operational inspection(s) on record, including 8 complaint investigation(s) of which 6 substantiated. 94 deficiency citation(s), 93% corrected. Recurring findings: Staffing Standards (cited in 9 inspections), Records (cited in 8 inspections), Resident Care (cited in 7 inspections), Physical Plant (cited in 7 inspections), Medication (cited in 6 inspections), Admissions (cited in 6 inspections), Limited Mental Health (cited in 5 inspections), Training (cited in 5 inspections), Food Service (cited in 3 inspections), Background Screening; Prohibited Offenses (cited in 3 inspections), Background Screening Clearinghouse (cited in 2 inspections), Unlicensed Activity (cited in 2 inspections).
Mar 13, 2026 · Standard
- Records (Class 3) — open
- Resident Care (Class 3) — open
- Food Service (Class 3) — open
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class 3) — open
- Medication (Class 3) — open
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — open
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — open
Mar 7, 2024 · Standard
- Risk Mgmt & QA (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
- Pharmacy & Dietary; Uncorrected Deficiencies (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2025
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
Dec 13, 2023 · Standard
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2024
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Assistive Devices (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
Mar 1, 2022 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected May 2022
- Emergency Environmental Control (Class 2) — corrected May 2022
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected May 2022
- Records (Class 3) — corrected May 2022
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected May 2022
Apr 1, 2021 · Complaint
- Background Screening; Prohibited Offenses (Class Unclassified) — corrected Sep 2021
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2021
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2021
- Background Screening Clearinghouse (Class Unclassified) — corrected Sep 2021
May 13, 2019 · Standard
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2019
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2019
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2019
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2019
Aug 30, 2017 · Standard
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
Jul 12, 2017 · Standard
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2017
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2017
Sep 9, 2016 · Complaint
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2017
Aug 5, 2016 · Complaint
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2016
- Admissions (Class 2) — corrected Sep 2016
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2016
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2016
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2016
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2016
Aug 3, 2016 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Feb 15, 2016 · Complaint
- Background Screening; Prohibited Offenses (Class 4) — corrected May 2016
Nov 23, 2015 · Complaint
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected May 2016
Sep 30, 2015 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2015
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2016
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2015
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2015
- Unlicensed Activity (Class 4) — corrected Nov 2015
May 12, 2015 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
May 12, 2015 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Resident Contracts (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Unlicensed Activity (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2015
Jul 8, 2014 · Monitor
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2014
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2014
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2014
Jul 11, 2013 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 17, 2013 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 17, 2013 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Limited Mental Health (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
- Background Screening; Prohibited Offenses (Class 4) — corrected Sep 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2013
Apr 3, 2013 · Monitor
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013
- Fiscal (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013
- Limited Nursing Services (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013
- Licensure (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2013