Nursing home
Palm Garden of Sun City
3850 Upper Creek Dr, Sun City Center, FL 33573 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Palm Garden Health And Rehabilitation (14 facilities) · 132 certified beds
Palm Garden of Sun City is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Sun City Center, Florida. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.71 hours per resident per day, below the Florida average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Sep 10, 2024 cited 12 deficiencies. Note: it carries a CMS abuse icon.
- CMS abuse iconThis facility has an active abuse icon on its CMS record.
- 4 fines totaling $85,965In CMS records: 4 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Palm Garden of Sun City 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) | 3.71 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.49 | 0.73 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.22 | 2.34 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 42.2% | 42.3% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 12.0 | 7.3 | 9.5 | above 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 4 fines totaling $85,965, 4 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Palm Garden of Sun City
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
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 18, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · May 6, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - 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 · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Sep 10, 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 · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Have a Compliance and Ethics Program.
Administration Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 10, 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 · Sep 10, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
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
- 3850 Upper Creek Dr
Sun City Center, FL 33573 - CMS certification #
- 105736
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 132
- Avg residents/day
- 122.0
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1991-06-28
- Chain
- Palm Garden Health And Rehabilitation (14 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Palm Garden Health And Rehabilitation
Palm Garden Health And Rehabilitation operates 14 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Palm Garden Health And Rehabilitation facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Palm Garden of Sun City using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2003
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2016, 1 violation cited
- Emergency Generator: fully implemented permanent generator (Florida AHCA)
Full public records, with dates and sources
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 Jun 21, 2003 to Jun 18, 2005. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $7,383 owed to 65 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Palm Garden of Sun City Center (SA-PG-Sun City Center LLC). Case 1404650.
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.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Feb 2, 2016: referral inspection, partial (safety). Case closed Mar 7, 2016. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $900 proposed, $900 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Palm Garden of Sun City Center, LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Reporting a death, hospitalization, amputation or eye loss to OSHA (1904.39(a)(2)). Penalty $900 proposed, $900 now.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Hca Florida South Shore Hospital, Sun City Center. 0.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Plaza West, Sun City Center. 0.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Empower Home Care, Sun City Center. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 33573 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Sun City Center Dialysis, Ruskin, 0.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Cypress Creek Dialysis Center, Ruskin, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Kidney Care Apollo Beach, Ruskin, 1.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 33573.
Suncoast Hospice Of Hillsborough, LLC, office in Brandon, 15.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Affinity Care Of Hillsborough LLC, office in Tampa, 18.7 miles away, straight line
Accent Care Hospice & Palliative Care Of Hillsboro, office in Tampa, 19.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Cornerstone Medical Care Of Brandon LLC, Sun City Center. 0.4 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)
- Wildfire risk to homes
- In Sun City Center, FL, risk to homes is greater than 77% of communities in Florida and 89% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole town or city, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively high, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire relatively moderate, tornado relatively high, 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 | See above |
| 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 | See above |
| 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 | No plain statements of services found |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Palm Garden of Sun City a good nursing home?
CMS gives Palm Garden of Sun City an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Palm Garden of Sun City staffed?
Palm Garden of Sun City reports 3.71 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Florida average of 3.86.
Has Palm Garden of Sun City had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 12 deficiencies.
How many beds does Palm Garden of Sun City have?
Palm Garden of Sun City is certified for 132 beds.