Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher

License snapshot: Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher — Florida ALF — AHCA #4110 — 175 beds — Tampa, FL — first licensed 2025. Last verified: October 2026.

Is Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher in Tampa licensed by the State of Florida?

Yes. Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher holds an active Florida Assisted Living Facility license, AHCA license #4110, for 175 residents at 4100 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa, FL 33613. It holds the standard ALF license with no ECC, LNS or LMH specialty license. The license was first issued on August 8, 2025, and the current license runs through August 7, 2027.

This page sets out what the AHCA record shows for Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher: the license, the inspections AHCA has posted since 2008, any final orders, and what that means for a family touring it.

Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher license and contact information

What level of care can Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher provide under its Florida license?

Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher can provide standard assisted living only. With a standard license only, the community can help with bathing, dressing, meals and medication assistance, but it cannot provide the extra nursing that an ECC or LNS license allows. Residents whose needs pass that line generally have to move.

In its AHCA profile the community reports a memory-care program. Florida has no separate memory-care license, so ask how the secured area is laid out and which of the dementia rules in s. 429.178, F.S. it follows. AHCA's profile lists nurse availability as: Direct 24hr, Direct Part-Time. Medicaid services listed on the profile: Assistive Care Services. In Tampa Bay, Medicaid help with assisted living runs through the SMMC Long-Term Care plans, so confirm which plans the community currently contracts with.

What did AHCA find when it inspected Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher?

AHCA has posted 4 inspections for Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher: 1 standard (routine) survey, 3 complaint investigations and 0 other visits. In the three years to October 2026, inspectors recorded 7 deficiencies, none of them Class I or II. The most recent visit was a complaint visit on July 10, 2026 with no deficiencies cited.

Read the list for repeats rather than for the total. A tag that shows up on two standard surveys in a row tells you more than one isolated finding.

Source: AHCA inspection details, retrieved October 24, 2026. Florida grades ALF deficiencies from Class I (an immediate threat or death) to Class IV (paperwork-level); most citations at large communities are Class III.

Has AHCA taken enforcement action against Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher?

Yes. AHCA's record lists 3 final orders imposing fines on Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher between 2018 and 2023, totaling $8,000.

Most ALF fines in Florida follow a survey that found an uncorrected or repeat deficiency. Ask the administrator what each order was for and what changed afterward; a straight answer is a good sign.

Who owns and operates Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher?

The AHCA licensee for Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher is Fletcher Fl Al, LLC. AHCA lists the administrator as Tracy Lynn Johnson. AHCA records a change of ownership on August 8, 2025, May 1, 2018.

Ask who you would call above the administrator if a problem is not resolved, and whether the operator runs other Tampa Bay communities you could visit for comparison.

Does Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher have backup power for hurricanes and outages?

Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher reports to AHCA that its on-site backup power is fixed generator, supporting air conditioning, heating systems, life safety systems, lights, refrigeration, and that the areas kept cool during an outage are: entire facility.

Florida requires every ALF to have an emergency power source able to keep the building at 81°F or cooler for at least 96 hours after an outage. In Hillsborough County, ask which evacuation zone the building sits in, where residents go if an order is issued, and how families are told.

Where is Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher, and what is nearby in Tampa?

Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher is at 4100 E Fletcher Ave in Tampa (33613), Hillsborough County. Tampa is the metro's urban core and Hillsborough County seat, with roughly 400,000 residents and a fast-growing 65+ population concentrated in South Tampa, Carrollwood, and New Tampa. The closest major hospitals for the area include Tampa General Hospital, AdventHealth Tampa, Moffitt Cancer Center.

Within about six miles there are 64 other AHCA-licensed assisted living facilities, so families comparing Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher have real alternatives close by.

Largest licensed ALFs within six miles (AHCA data):

• Seacoast at Uptown Oaks · Tampa · 160 beds · AHCA #13463 · 1.6 mi
• Renaissance of North Tampa · Tampa · 135 beds · AHCA #7531 · 2.9 mi
• The Pavilion of East Tampa · Tampa · 135 beds · AHCA #61 · 4.8 mi
• Sodalis Tampa · Tampa · 133 beds · AHCA #9981 · 4.7 mi
• Promise Pointe at Tampa Oaks · Temple Terrace · 130 beds · AHCA #13142 · 3.7 mi

How much does memory care and assisted living cost near Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher?

In the Tampa area, assisted living typically runs $3,500–$5,500/month in 2026, and memory care $4,800–$7,000/month. These are area ranges, not Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher's prices; the community sets its own rates by apartment size and care level.

It reports to AHCA that it accepts VA payment, so veterans and surviving spouses should ask about Aid and Attendance. Because Medicaid services appear on its profile, ask whether it has an open SMMC Long-Term Care bed for your parent's plan. Ask for the full fee schedule, any community fee, and the 30-day notice terms before you compare.

What should you ask when you tour Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher?

Start with the issues AHCA has actually raised at Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher, then cover the questions every Tampa family should ask.

• AHCA cited “Admissions - continued residency” on the April 7, 2026 standard survey. Ask for the admission and continued-residency criteria in writing, and ask who completes the AHCA Form 1823 health assessment and how often it is updated.
• AHCA cited “Medication - assistance with self-admin” on the April 7, 2026 standard survey. Ask who assists with medications on each shift, how a missed or refused dose is logged, and how the community tells families about a medication error.
• AHCA cited “Staffing standards - staff” on the April 7, 2026 standard survey. Ask how many caregivers are awake overnight, how agency staff are screened, and how long the administrator has been in the role.
• How are care plans reviewed, and how often are families included?
• How is the memory-care neighborhood staffed at night, and is it a separate secured area?
• What is the caregiver-to-resident ratio on the overnight shift, not just during the day?

How does Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher compare with other Hillsborough County assisted living?

By licensed capacity, Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher ranks #3 of 263 AHCA-licensed assisted living facilities in Hillsborough County, and it is one of 68 there that report a memory-care program. Size is not quality; it tells you the community runs at scale, with more staff to manage and usually more amenities.

Tampa Senior Advisor is a free service for families. We can set Blue Palms Senior Living at Fletcher beside other licensed Tampa options on care level, current openings and price, and we will point out good options that do not pay us. Communities pay a referral fee only if your family chooses them.