Gulf Shore Care Center

    6767 86th Ave, Pinellas Park, FL 33782
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Warm attentive staff, excellent care

    I felt reassured leaving my mom here - the staff are warm, attentive, and genuinely caring, with excellent nurses, aides, and a top-notch therapy/rehab team. The facility is very clean, well-run and home-like, admissions and social services were knowledgeable, and activities/food kept her engaged. Overall I'm very satisfied and would recommend it.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.43·(110)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.2
    • Staff

      3.4
    • Meals

      2.1
    • Amenities

      3.8
    • Value

      1.7

    Pros

    • Strong physical therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Compassionate and attentive nursing and CNA staff
    • Knowledgeable and helpful admissions team
    • Clean, well-maintained public areas and rooms
    • Active social and recreational programming
    • Responsive social-work and case-management assistance
    • Effective coordination of post-discharge home health
    • Private rooms and comfortable resident accommodations
    • Professional therapy staff with measurable functional gains
    • Warm and personable front-line staff interactions

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing coverage, especially weekends and nights
    • Variable nursing responsiveness and assistance timeliness
    • Gaps in family communication and discharge coordination
    • Sanitation and pest-control concerns in some units
    • Unreliable meal quality and dietary adherence
    • Medication management and monitoring weaknesses
    • Inadequate personal-property controls
    • Irregular wound-care and pressure-injury management
    • Administrative and leadership oversight inconsistencies
    • Regulatory compliance and incident-response concerns

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews describe a facility with marked variability: many families and patients praise the rehabilitation program, several therapists, and a subset of nursing and CNA staff for producing clear functional improvements and providing compassionate day-to-day care. Positive comments cluster around the physical-therapy department, admissions ease of entry, clean public spaces, active social programming (for example, organized outings and games), and individual staff members who communicate well and coordinate post-discharge services.

    Counterbalancing those positives are recurring operational weaknesses. A frequent theme is inconsistent staffing levels and responsiveness — reviewers commonly cite longer response times and reduced supervision on weekends and nights, which correlates with delayed assistance for toileting, bathing, dressing, and mobility. Associated with this are concerns about medication administration and monitoring, including delayed pain control and questions about medication practices used to manage agitation or mobility.

    Dining and nutrition receive mixed feedback: some families note supportive special-diet handling and adequate meal service, while others describe meals that do not match menus, limited nutritional variety, and inconsistent diabetes or dietary management. Housekeeping and infection-control issues are another recurring pattern; several reviews reference sanitation and pest-control concerns, inconsistent linen and laundry handling, and lapses in wound-care follow-up that require attention.

    Management and communication emerge as a third area of variability. Positive experiences often identify proactive social workers and admissions staff who provide clear updates and coordinated care plans. Conversely, other families describe poor follow-through on discharge planning, missing or misplaced personal items, difficulty reaching nursing leadership, and uneven administrative responsiveness. A number of comments also indicate regulatory or compliance-related events that have affected family confidence.

    For prospective residents and their families: the facility can offer strong rehabilitation outcomes and several staff who deliver attentive, personalized care, but the experience appears highly dependent on timing, assigned staff, and unit oversight. When evaluating placement, consider asking about weekend and night staffing ratios, wound- and diabetes-care protocols, infection-control practices and pest-control schedules, medication administration policies (including monitoring and incident reporting), property-handling procedures, and the facility’s typical communication pathway for family updates and discharge planning. A tour that includes conversations with therapy leaders, nursing leadership, and the social-work team can help clarify how consistent the positive elements are likely to be for a specific placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Gulf Shore Care Center is located at 6767 86th Ave, Pinellas Park, FL, 33782.

    About Gulf Shore Care Center

    Gulf Shore Care Center, located in Pinellas Park, FL, is a single-story skilled nursing facility with 120 certified beds and connections to Gold Fl Trust II, and you'll find both private and semi-private rooms that are well furnished and spacious for comfort and safety, offering a secure environment for residents and their families. Around the clock, a dedicated team of nurses and healthcare professionals provides care, with nurse staffing levels at 3.36 hours per resident per day and a nurse turnover rate of 42%, so while care is always available, staff changes can happen from time to time.

    This community is part of a healthcare network with a focus on resident-centered services and has received accreditations for its efforts, but Gulf Shore Care Center has also experienced 15 total deficiencies in inspection reports, including one related to infections, and others regarding food procurement, storage, preparation, and service, along with issues in providing consistent care for residents who need help with incontinence, catheter care, or preventing urinary tract infections. Despite these citations, the facility is known to provide safe respiratory care when needed, and it's equipped to manage a range of medical needs with post-acute rehabilitation, short-term rehab for those moving from hospital to home, memory care for those with cognitive issues, wound care, and sub-acute medical and rehabilitation services, all available under a 24-hour schedule.

    Residents at Gulf Shore Care Center have access to a full array of therapies-IV, respiratory, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, plus on-site X-ray and advanced rehabilitation gym-and care teams work together using personalized plans tailored to each individual's health needs, with specialized hospitalist doctors collaborating with regular physicians to give seamless support during changes in care. The Case Management & Family Support team helps families navigate care and treatment options, while the staff strive to uphold values of respect, dignity, and personal attention.

    Amenities at this facility cover dining services, beauty and housekeeping, transportation, exercise, recreational, and health programs, with a busy events calendar to keep residents engaged and active, and there are friendly local staff who contribute to the warm, community-focused atmosphere. Community reviews often mention the compassionate approach from staff, and Gulf Shore Care Center continues to update its services with upcoming memory care and wellness initiatives, always looking to combine new healthcare advances with caring support, and the facility is designed with safety and easy access in mind to help everyone feel at home.

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