Florida Assisted Living Regulations and Records

When choosing an assisted living community, it is important to understand Florida state regulations for assisted living facilities and know how to look up assisted living license information. But public access to assisted living records varies greatly by state.

We developed a system to rate each state on how easy – or difficult – it is to find important assisted living records and reports, and compiled tips to help you in your search.

States with the most transparent records allow you to look up important information about each assisted living facility online, including inspections, complaints, survey results, violations, capacity, and whether the facility accepts Medicaid.

Access to Florida assisted living records: Exceptional

Public access to assisted living records and reports for the state of Florida is exceptional. Key findings that informed this rating include:

• Florida has one of the best websites for researching assisted living records.
• Assisted living records in Florida are highly transparent, having met all but one of the transparency criteria.

How to look up Florida assisted living licenses and records

• Visit Floridahealthfinder.gov.
• Select “Assisted Living Facility” or “Adult Family Care Home” for license type and use the other fields to narrow your search.
• After reaching your search results, click on the name of a community to access information and associated records.

How we arrived at our Florida rating

We developed a standard methodology for state data collection and evaluation, and based our rating primarily on the objective, state-specific accessibility criteria outlined in these questions:

1. Are licensed assisted living communities listed online in any form? Yes
2. If Yes to #1, is the information updated frequently? Yes
3. If Yes to #1, is the list of licensed communities searchable? Yes
4. Does the state post inspections, complaints, survey results, or violations online? Yes
5. If Yes to #4, is the information updated frequently? [within 90 days] Yes
6. If Yes to #2 and #4, is the enforcement information included in the same place as licensed communities? Yes
7. If Yes to #4 and No to #6, are violations / inspections searchable at all? Yes or N/A
8. Is information about special licensing for care shown? Yes
9. Capacity shown? Yes
10. Payment types shown, [e.g. Medicaid, private pay]? Yes
11. Administrator / Contact name shown? Yes
12. State may fine facility? Yes
13. Frequency of inspections? Every 12 months
14. Website includes pricing of facility? No