Somerset
An assisted living facility in Tavares, Florida 32778
2450 Dora Avenue, Tavares, Florida 32778. (352) 343-4464.
What Florida’s list coversAssisted living facilities only
Assisted living facilities only, from the Agency for Health Care Administration’s comparison list. Adult family-care homes, small homes of up to five residents that the Agency also licenses, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
- 5 deficiencies in AHCA’s count Middle in Lake County: 2
- 0 Class 1 deficiencies, Florida’s most serious kind
- 60 beds, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean7
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Florida’s classes (I to IV)
- Florida sorts deficiencies into four classes. Class I, the most serious: an imminent danger to residents, or a substantial chance of death or serious harm. Class II: a direct threat to residents’ health, safety or security. Class III: an indirect or potential threat. Class IV: no potential to affect residents. Source: Florida Statutes 408.813.
- Memory care
- Care for people living with dementia. Some states license a separate dementia or Alzheimer’s unit; others ask a facility to say what dementia care it gives. This record uses the state’s own field. Source: Each state’s list.
- Accepts Medicaid
- The state’s own list says the place takes part in a Medicaid program (a waiver, a contract or a program like Illinois’s supportive living) that can pay for care for people who qualify. Source: Each state’s list.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
AHCA counts 5 deficiencies for this facility: 0 Florida sorts deficiencies into four classes. Class I, the most serious: an imminent danger to residents, or a substantial chance of death or serious harm. Class II: a direct threat to residents’ health, safety or security. Class III: an indirect or potential threat. Class IV: no potential to affect residents. Source: Florida Statutes 408.813., 0 Class 2, 4 Class 3 and 0 Class 4, and 1 unclassified.
AHCA’s comparison page doesn’t say what period its counts cover; its inspection reports are linked.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facilities comparison. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Is it licensed?
- Assisted living facility, licensed by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration since Apr 30, 2004 for 60 residents.
- Licensed; AHCA’s status: in review.
- AHCA file number 11910627.
- Licence number 7472, with an expiration date of Apr 29, 2026, which has passed.
- Medicaid Services: Assisted Living Waiver.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Facility profiles and Assisted Living Facilities comparison. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Has the state acted against it?
- 2 A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency. complaints, 1 sanction or final order and $0 in fines in AHCA’s counts.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facilities comparison and Facility profiles. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | Kind | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2020 | Fine | $500 |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Fine | $250 |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Fine | $1,000 |
| Jun 25, 2014 | Fine | $500 |
| Apr 22, 2014 | Fine | $500 |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Deny License Modification | Not given |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Fine | $2,500 |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Fine | $2,400 |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Fine | $5,500 |
| Oct 5, 2007 | Fine | $1,500 |
| Jun 29, 2007 | Fine | $900 |
| Jun 29, 2007 | Fine | $750 |
| Jun 29, 2007 | Fine | $5,600 |
| May 8, 2007 | Fine | $750 |
Who does the caring?
- What the facility reports to AHCA about nurses: Direct Part-Time.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facilities comparison. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Who holds the licence?
- Jest Operating, Inc. holds the licence.
- James F. Heiman Trust (100%) owns it.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Facility profiles. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
How is it rated?
- Florida doesn’t publish quality ratings for assisted living facilities.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 38 facilities of this kind in Lake County, the middle value for deficiencies in AHCA’s count was 2; this one had 5.
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facilities comparison. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies in AHCA’s count |
|---|---|
| Somerset This assisted living facility | 5 |
| Gardens at Tavares LLC (The) | 6 |
| Brookdale Lake Tavares | 1 |
| Celebration Villa of Tavares | 9 |
| The Cove at Tavares Village | 0 |
| Alto Tavares | 7 |
| Lake Port Square Inn | 3 |
| Minneola Place, A Homebridge Community Assisted Living | 1 |
| Mayfield Retirement Center | 2 |
| Ruleme Place | 2 |
| Bridgewater at Waterman Village (The) | 0 |
| Kiva of Mount Dora | 5 |
What the record doesn’t say
- AHCA’s comparison page doesn’t say what period its counts cover, or list each deficiency; AHCA’s inspection reports are linked.
- AHCA notes that legal actions may have been issued to a prior owner; each final order names the licensee responsible.
- Activities, nurse availability and services are what the facility reports to AHCA.
- AHCA’s profile gives an expiration date that has passed, and doesn’t say whether the licence was renewed; FloridaHealthFinder has its current status.
- Its AHCA profile (address, licence and owners) was read on Oct 27, 2026.
Sources
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Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facilities comparison.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated (FloridaHealthFinder data disclaimer; Florida public records law, chapter 119).
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Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Facility profiles.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated (FloridaHealthFinder data disclaimer; Florida public records law, chapter 119).
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This copy of the record was made on Oct 30, 2026.
From the facility
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