Nursing home
Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake
3355 E Semoran Blvd, Apopka, FL 32703 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Solaris Healthcare (22 facilities) · 222 certified beds
Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Apopka, Florida. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.74 hours per resident per day, below the Florida average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Mar 27, 2025 cited 5 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $15,269In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake 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) | 3.74 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.51 | 0.73 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.23 | 2.34 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 36.1% | 42.3% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 5.0 | 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.
- Every deficiency from the July 11, 2025 inspection was corrected by August 11, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $15,269, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake
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 and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jul 11, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 11, 2025 · 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 11, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - 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 · Mar 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 9 deficiencies
- Immediate jeopardy
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 19, 2023 - Immediate jeopardy
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jul 19, 2023 - Potential for harm
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 22, 2021 - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Oct 22, 2021
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
- 3355 E Semoran Blvd
Apopka, FL 32703 - CMS certification #
- 105353
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 222
- Avg residents/day
- 205.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1979-10-01
- Chain
- Solaris Healthcare (22 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Solaris Healthcare
Solaris Healthcare operates 22 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Solaris Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2025
- 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 Feb 3, 2025 to Sep 14, 2025. Violations found: Family and medical leave. Employer as DOL recorded it: Solaris Healthcare - Forest Lake (Apopka South SNF Operations LLC). Case 2007085.
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
- Adventhealth Orlando, Orlando. 8.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Harborview Health Center West Altamonte, Altamonte Springs. 2.1 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Classic Home Health Services, Apopka. 0.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- The Medicine Shoppe. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 32703 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Apopka Dialysis, Apopka, 2.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Orlando Artificial Kidney Center, Altamonte Springs, 3.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
West Orange Maitland Dialysis Center LLC, Orlando, 3.9 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 6 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 32703.
Adventhealth Hospice Care Central Florida, office in Altamonte Springs, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Gentiva, office in Orlando, 10.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of Lake & Sumter Inc, office in Tavares, 18.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Florida Hospital Medical Group Inc, Maitland. 4.4 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)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire relatively low, 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 | 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 relatively 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 | No plain statements of services found |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake a good nursing home?
CMS gives Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake staffed?
Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake reports 3.74 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Florida average of 3.86.
Has Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 5 deficiencies.
How many beds does Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake have?
Solaris Healthcare Forest Lake is certified for 222 beds.