Lakeland Senior AdvisorWhat does the Polk County senior care directory include?
Every active license AHCA's locator shows for assisted living facilities, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, adult day care centers and adult family care homes in Polk County, 139 in all, plus CMS Care Compare ratings for nursing homes and Florida OIR's list of life plan communities.
| City | ALFs | reporting memory care | Nursing homes | Home health | Hospice | Adult day / family care |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland | 18 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 4 |
| Winter Haven | 13 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 3 |
| Bartow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Haines City | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Lake Wales | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Davenport & ChampionsGate | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Poinciana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Auburndale | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lake Alfred | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dundee & Lake Hamilton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Where does the directory's information come from?
From government data files and nothing else: the AHCA locator and each facility's public profile as retrieved on November 6, 2026, AHCA's posted inspection visits, CMS Provider Information as of October 1, 2026, and OIR's October 2025 CCRC map. Listing sites, facility advertising and online reviews play no part.
Facility pages exist for the 32 ALFs licensed for 40 or more residents and all 25 nursing homes; smaller ALFs and the other license types appear as roster rows.
How do the listing pages work?
Type part of a name or street into the search box, narrow by city or license type (nursing homes also filter by CMS rating), and click any column heading to sort; that is how you would pull up, say, the LMH-licensed ALFs in Lakeland ordered by size.
How current are the inspection dates?
AHCA surveys ALFs for relicensure about every two years and investigates complaints in between; for the 30 Polk County ALFs licensed for 40 or more residents with a posted standard survey, the latest standard survey is a median 11 months old and cited a median of 1 deficiencies.
A complaint visit with no citation means the allegation was not substantiated; a standard survey with no citation is the stronger sign.
Side by side
| This directory is | This directory is not | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Every active AHCA license of these types in Polk County | A list of paying partners |
| Ratings | CMS nursing home ratings, labelled as CMS's | Our own scores |
| Freshness | AHCA data retrieved November 6, 2026, CMS data of October 1, 2026 | Edited by the facilities themselves |
