The home failed to clearly tell residents or their representatives that they could refuse a binding arbitration agreement. Cited May 2025 — limited pattern, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 847 — 42 CFR §483.70 — S/S: E
Nursing home report
SUNNYSIDE NURSING HOME
SARASOTA, FL · Medicare-certified · 60 beds
In good standing
Non-profit
5 of 5 overall
SUNNYSIDE NURSING HOME in Sarasota has a 5-star overall rating, with strong staffing and quality scores and nurse staffing above the federal benchmark (5.09 vs. 4.1 hours per resident per day). It had no fines in the last 24 months, but its recent inspection cited issues in arbitration disclosure, infection prevention and control, and range-of-motion care.
Facility ratings
Health inspections
Staffing
5.0887 hrs/resident/day
Quality measures
Last inspection: May 30, 2025Penalties, last 24 months: $0
Federal guidance recommends at least 4.1 nursing hours per resident each day. This facility reports 5.0887.
Staffing detail
- Registered nurses
- 0.95
- Licensed practical nurses
- 1.18
- Nurse aides
- 2.96
- Weekend nursing
- 4.58
Hours per resident per day.
Total staff turnover: 20%
Registered nurse turnover: 15%
Resident outcomes
How often residents experience these outcomes, with the direction over the past year.
Long-stay residents on antipsychotic medication
14.3%Improving
Residents with a fall causing major injury
5.3%Improving
Residents with pressure ulcers (bedsores)
2.1%Improving
Residents with a urinary tract infection
0.8%Improving
Residents who lost too much weight
3.8%Worsening
Residents who were physically restrained
0%Steady
Residents needing more help with daily activities
13.7%Worsening
Residents whose ability to walk got worse
14.1%Steady
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Long-stay residents on antianxiety or sleep medication
21.7%Worsening
Short-stay residents newly given an antipsychotic
0.3%Worsening
Residents with a long-term catheter
0.7%Improving
Residents with new or worsening incontinence
24.7%Worsening
Residents with depressive symptoms
0.8%Worsening
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
100%Steady
Long-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
100%Steady
Short-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
98.3%Steady
Short-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
99.6%Improving
What the inspectors found
The nursing home failed to provide and carry out an infection prevention and control program to help keep residents from getting or spreading infections. Cited May 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 880 — 42 CFR §483.80(a) — S/S: D
The home failed to provide appropriate care to help a resident maintain or improve movement and mobility. Cited May 2021 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 688 — 42 CFR §483.25(c) — S/S: D
The home failed to provide safe and appropriate breathing care when a resident needed it. Cited May 2021 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 695 — 42 CFR §483.25(i) — S/S: D
Recent history
- STAFFING
Reported nurse staffing met or exceeded the federal recommendation.
- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 2 health deficiencies.
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- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 2 health deficiencies.
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Operator & ownership
- Ownership
- Non profit - Church related
- Occupancy
- 51.5 residents on an average day (86% of 60 beds)
- Resident voice
- Resident council
- Medicare history
- Certified for 22 years
Things at a nursing home change — inspections, staffing, ownership, news.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — public records, updated monthly. GoodStanding presents official records with plain-language summaries. Always visit a facility in person.