The Sands at South Beach Care Center

• Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 10, 2025

• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jul 2, 2025

• Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jul 2, 2025

• Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jul 2, 2025

• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Add doors in an exit area that do not require the use of a key from the exit side unless in case of special locking arrangements.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Ensure electrical receptacles or cover plates have distinctive color or marking.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 7, 2024

• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• 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.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• 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.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• 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.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

• Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 1, 2023

The Sands at South Beach Care Center offers Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.

The Sands at South Beach Care Center is located at 42 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida.

Most reviewers describe The Sands at South Beach as a well-run skilled nursing and rehab center with attentive, professional nursing staff and a clean, organized environment. However, one detailed report describes a starkly different experience involving neglect, unsanitary conditions, and missing belongings, highlighting inconsistency in care quality.

The Sands at South Beach Care Center had 4 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 31 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.

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