Assisted Living and Memory Care
The Meridian at Waterways
3001 E Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306 · Map
Licensed for 130 residents
The Meridian at Waterways is a state-licensed assisted living, memory care community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is licensed for 130 residents. Lilisity publishes no score or ranking for this community; the details below come from the state licensing record.
Prices
This community does not publish its prices.
Area costs
Care and services
From the community’s website
What The Meridian at Waterways says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Has a separate memory care unit, wing or neighborhood.
In our memory care neighborhood, pricing is all-inclusive to provide families with helpful financial predictability.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - 3 meals a day.
Seniors who live on their own face the hassle of making three balanced meals every day for themselves.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: one-bedroom.
One Bedroom A
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Lilisity’s independent report
What the public record shows
Gathered by Lilisity from state and federal sources. Communities can’t edit this part of the page.
License
Active, 130 residents
Assisted Living Facility 12940.
Nearest emergency room
1.4 miles
Holy Cross Hospital, rated 4 of 5 stars by CMS.
Side by side with nearby communities
The 4 nearest communities that offer assisted living, by straight-line distance. Prices are starting prices each community publishes; we never show estimates.
| Community | Distance | Licensed capacity | Published starting price | License | Inspection citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Meridian at Waterways this community | 130 | Not published | Active | No record | |
| Windsor Place Retirement Home | 1.2 mi | 80 | Not published | Active | No record |
| Williamsburg Landing | 1.3 mi | 100 | Not published | Active | No record |
| Independence Hall | 1.3 mi | 125 | Not published | Active | 6 deficiencies, 0 sanctions |
| Sara's House | 1.7 mi | 7 | Not published | Active | No record |
License and ownershipActive license
- License type
- Assisted Living Facility
- License number
- 12940
- License status
- Active
- Licensed capacity
- 130
- County
- Broward County
- Administrator
- Lori Rosario
Source: Florida state licensing records (agency listing), retrieved 2026-09-09. Licensing status is a matter of public record; it is not a quality rating.
Administrator name from the Florida licensing record, as of Oct 12, 2026.
Paying with Medicaid and other programsHow Medicaid pays for care in Florida, and other programs
How Medicaid pays for care in Florida
- Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) Long-Term Care (LTC) program. Florida Medicaid's Long-Term Care program lists assisted living services as a covered service. There is a wait list, and people are released from it by priority score, not by how long they have waited. (state page)
- Waitlist. The Long-Term Care program has a wait list. People are released by priority score and frailty, not by time on the list. (source)
Ask the community whether it accepts Medicaid.
Location and nearby careNearest hospital 1.4 mi, nursing home 1.3 mi, pharmacy 0.6 mi
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Holy Cross Hospital, Ft Lauderdale. 1.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Pearl at Fort Lauderdale Rehabilitation and Nursin, Fort Lauderdale. 1.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Elite Home Health Services LLC, Fort Lauderdale. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 33306 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fusion Dialysis Pd LLC, Fort Lauderdale, 1.8 miles away, straight line
Davita Advanced Dialysis Center Of Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Fort Lauderdale Dialysis, Oakland Park, 2.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 6 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 33306.
Continuum Care Of Broward LLC, office in Sunrise, 9.1 miles away, straight line
Heartland Hospice (Broward), office in Plantation, 10.4 miles away, straight line
Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care Of Broward County, office in Plantation, 10.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- West Broward Internal Medicine, PLLC, Tamarac. 8.3 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard riskFEMA overall risk relatively moderate; outside FEMA's high-risk flood areas; in a hurricane evacuation zone
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Emergency power
- Fully Implemented Permanent Generator. (Florida AHCA generator status, as of Oct 15, 2026)
- Hurricane evacuation zone
- Zone B (Broward B) on the Florida Know Your Zone evacuation zones. (Florida Division of Emergency Management, map updated Sep 19, 2026)
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively high, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding relatively high, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively low, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
Questions to ask on a tour10 questions picked for this community from its record
Picked for this community from its record. Ask them in person and write down the answers.
- This address is in a hurricane evacuation zone. Where do residents go in an evacuation, and how do you move them?
- What does the base rate include, and when did rates last go up?
- How many caregivers work in memory care during the day, the evening and overnight, and for how many residents?
- What dementia training does each caregiver get before working alone, and every year after?
- How do staff respond when a resident is agitated, frightened or tries to leave?
- How many caregivers are on duty during the day and at night?
- What happens if care needs increase? When would someone need to move?
- What fees are charged at move-in?
- How do you tell families about falls, illness or changes?
- How long have the executive director and the head of care been here?
What we checked16 public sources we searched, with dates
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) inspection records | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Florida Medicaid provider list | Oct 15, 2026 | Not on the state list we checked. These lists are often incomplete. |
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants kitchen inspections | Oct 15, 2026 | No kitchen matched |
| Florida AHCA generator status | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | See above | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
Common questionsAnswers to 4 questions families ask
What type of care does The Meridian at Waterways provide?
The Meridian at Waterways is licensed by the state of Florida for assisted living, memory care in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Its licensed capacity is 130 residents.
Does Lilisity rate The Meridian at Waterways?
No. We publish state licensing details for The Meridian at Waterways but no score, rating, or ranking. Only communities on the Top Communities list or with a Senior Living Alliance Excellence Award, both based on phone-verified resident and family interviews, are ranked.
How much does The Meridian at Waterways cost?
Assisted Living in Broward County typically starts at $2,850 to $3,950 a month. Based on 16 communities that publish prices. These are area figures, not this community's price. The Meridian at Waterways does not publish its prices.
How do I contact The Meridian at Waterways?
Use The Meridian at Waterways's website, meridiansenior.com/senior-living/fl/fort-lauderdale/meridian-at-waterways, or visit at 3001 E Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306.
How Lilisity works. The only scores or rankings Lilisity publishes are the Top Communities list and the Excellence Awards, both built from phone-verified resident and family interviews. Communities can pay Lilisity a flat monthly fee to manage their own listing: photos, prices, contact details, and receiving the inquiries families choose to send them. The fee is the same no matter how many families contact them or move in. Senior Living Alliance, which runs Lilisity, offers the same listing to its member communities as part of their membership; members pay SLA for its resident and family interview program. No community pays Lilisity per inquiry, per referral or per move-in. Payment never changes a testimonial, a rating, or the order of search results. The "Nearby Senior Living Alliance communities" box shows member communities only. How we verify testimonials · How we are paid