VITALITY LIVING LAKE FOREST — Assisted Living in Sanford, Florida
Vitality Living Lake Forest is a 220-bed assisted living facility in Sanford, Florida. Its CareQED Score is 0 out of 100 (Serious concerns), based on Florida AHCA inspection findings. AHCA records include 7 serious (Class 1 or 2) violations. The record also includes 7 state sanctions or final orders, a formal enforcement signal. Care options include memory care, 24-hour on-site nursing, limited nursing services (LNS). It has operated under Lake Forest Owner LLC for about 4 years.
Serious findings are present and weigh heavily on the score. The AHCA record repeatedly cites problems in resident care, medication handling, admissions, staff training, staffing standards, and records; most cited issues have been corrected while a small number of matters remain open and under enforcement, and the pattern across recent inspections looks mildly improving but still concerning.
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: 7
- Class 3 violations: 28
- Class 4 violations: 0
- Unclassified: 1
- Substantiated complaints: 7
- Sanctions/final orders: 7
- Serious findings: 7
Care & Payment
- Memory care offered
- 24-hour on-site nursing
- Limited nursing services (LNS)
Activities & Services
- Nurse availability: Direct 24hr
- Activities: Arts and Crafts, Cooking Classes, 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: 220 · For-Profit · Operator since 2021 · Fines: $32,500 · 5433 WEST SR 46, SANFORD, FL, 32771 · (407) 322-2207
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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. 43 operational inspection(s) on record, including 30 complaint investigation(s) of which 19 substantiated. 90 deficiency citation(s), 98% corrected. Recurring findings: Resident Care (cited in 19 inspections), Medication (cited in 10 inspections), Admissions (cited in 8 inspections), Training (cited in 7 inspections), Staffing Standards (cited in 6 inspections), Records (cited in 4 inspections), Limited Nursing Services (cited in 3 inspections), Reporting Requirements; Electronic Submission (cited in 2 inspections), Physical Plant (cited in 2 inspections), Resident Contracts (cited in 2 inspections), Do Not Resuscitate Orders (dnros) (cited in 2 inspections), Risk Mgmt & QA; Adverse Incident Report (cited in 2 inspections).
Apr 15, 2026 · Complaint
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected May 2026
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2026
Apr 14, 2026 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Feb 10, 2026 · Complaint
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2026
- Resident Care (Class 2) — open
- Resident Care (Class 3) — open
Dec 9, 2025 · Standard
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2025
- Reporting Requirements; Electronic Submission (Class Unclassified) — corrected Dec 2025
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2025
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2026
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2025
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Dec 2025
Aug 21, 2024 · Complaint
- Physical Plant (Class 3) — corrected Oct 2024
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2024
Aug 12, 2024 · Complaint
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2024
May 29, 2024 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Jun 2024
Feb 13, 2024 · Standard
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2024
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Mar 2024
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2024
- Limited Nursing Services (Class 3) — corrected Feb 2024
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Feb 2024
- Limited Nursing Services (Class 3) — corrected Feb 2024
Jul 17, 2023 · Complaint
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2023
May 26, 2023 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2023
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Sep 2023
May 7, 2023 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2023
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Jun 2023
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Jun 2023
Apr 27, 2023 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jul 28, 2022 · Monitor
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2022
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Jul 2022
- Food Service (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2022
- Resident Contracts (Class 3) — corrected Oct 2022
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2022
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2022
Jul 22, 2022 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Dec 2022
Oct 19, 2021 · Standard
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2021
Sep 23, 2021 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Dec 7, 2020 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Oct 27, 2020 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Mar 22, 2020 · Standard
No deficiencies cited.
Dec 23, 2019 · Standard
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2020
Nov 21, 2019 · Complaint
- Physical Plant (Class 2) — corrected Jan 2020
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2020
Oct 9, 2019 · Standard
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
- Background Screening-compliance Attestation (Class 4) — corrected Dec 2019
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
- Limited Nursing Services (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2019
Jul 31, 2019 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Sep 2019
Apr 12, 2019 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jan 24, 2019 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Jan 3, 2019 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
Nov 14, 2018 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
Aug 30, 2018 · Monitor
- Records (Class 4) — corrected Nov 2018
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Mar 2019
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Jan 2019
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2018
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2018
- Emergency Environmental Control (Class 4) — corrected Nov 2018
Sep 28, 2017 · Standard
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
- Admissions (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
- Records (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2017
- Training (Class 4) — corrected Nov 2017
Sep 28, 2017 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Jun 2, 2017 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Aug 2017
Apr 18, 2017 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Oct 31, 2016 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Jan 2017
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Jan 2017
Aug 19, 2016 · Complaint
- Do Not Resuscitate Orders (dnros) (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2016
- Reporting Requirements; Electronic Submission (Class 4) — corrected Nov 2017
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2016
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2016
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Nov 2016
May 14, 2014 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Oct 9, 2013 · Standard
- Staffing Standards (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2013
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2013
- Do Not Resuscitate Orders (dnros) (Class 4) — corrected Dec 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2013
- Training (Class 3) — corrected Dec 2013
Aug 7, 2013 · Monitor
No deficiencies cited.
Apr 29, 2013 · Complaint
- Risk Mgmt & QA; Adverse Incident Report (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2013
- Records (Class 4) — corrected Aug 2013
Jan 2, 2013 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
Aug 14, 2012 · Complaint
- Risk Mgmt & QA; Adverse Incident Report (Class 3) — corrected Sep 2012
- Resident Care (Class 2) — corrected Sep 2012
Aug 13, 2012 · Complaint
No deficiencies cited.
May 30, 2012 · Complaint
- Resident Care (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2012
May 30, 2012 · Monitor
- Medication (Class 3) — corrected Apr 2013
- Resident Contracts (Class 4) — corrected Aug 2012
- Limited Nursing Services (Class 3) — corrected Aug 2012