Nursing home
Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center
2505 Sw Martin Hwy, Palm City, FL 34990 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Sovereign Healthcare Holdings (43 facilities) · 120 certified beds
Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Palm City, Florida. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (4/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.64 hours per resident per day, below the Florida average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Jul 18, 2024 cited 7 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center compares
This facility vs. the Florida and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Florida avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.64 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.63 | 0.73 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.16 | 2.34 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 32.7% | 42.3% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 7.0 | 7.3 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
What inspectors found at Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 25, 2023 - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023 - Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023 - Potential for harm
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023 - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jan 13, 2022
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 2505 Sw Martin Hwy
Palm City, FL 34990 - CMS certification #
- 105831
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 120
- Avg residents/day
- 107.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1993-10-19
- Chain
- Sovereign Healthcare Holdings (43 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Sovereign Healthcare Holdings
Sovereign Healthcare Holdings operates 43 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Sovereign Healthcare Holdings facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2009
- Emergency Generator: fully implemented permanent generator (Florida AHCA)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
Patients that have been admitted to a hospital for a minimum of three nights may have the option for a short-term stay in our center to receive 24-hour Nursing care and Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy up to seven-days each week.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
The Nurse Practitioner was telling us he needed to go to Hospice because he was 98 years old and it was a part of life.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
Private/Semi Private Rooms
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Feb 11, 2009 to Feb 9, 2011. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $18,394 owed to 4 employees. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center (Sovereign Healthcare of Palm City, LLC). Case 1617053.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital, Stuart. 3.8 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Waters Edge Health and Rehabilitation, Palm City. 2.0 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Aveanna Home Health, Stuart. 2.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 34990 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Treasure Coast Kidney Center North, Stuart, 4.8 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Kidney Care Port Salerno, Stuart, 5.7 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Bma - Port Saint Lucie, Port Saint Lucie, 8.5 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 4 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 34990.
Treasure Coast Hospice Of Martin, office in Stuart, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Treasure Coast Hospice Of St Lucie, office in Fort Pierce, 15.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- The Council On Aging Of Martin County Inc, Stuart. 3.7 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 risk
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)
- 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 high. By hazard: hurricane very high, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado relatively moderate, 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.
What we checked
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 |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| 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 | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 4/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center staffed?
Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center reports 3.64 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Florida average of 3.86.
Has Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 7 deficiencies.
How many beds does Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center have?
Palm City Nursing & Rehab Center is certified for 120 beds.