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An \u2018Emergency Suspension Order,\u2019 dated July 28, 2026, and issued by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, is posted on the gate of Our Dream ALF, 1630-1640 Palm Ave. in Hialeah, Thursday July 30, 2026. The state gave the owner until 5 p.m. Friday to shut down the home.<\/p>\n
Pedro Portal<\/p>\n
pportal@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n
Deprived of heart medication for three weeks, the resident of a Hialeah elder care home stopped breathing on Sunday. Life-saving CPR, the use of a defibrillator or even a \u201ctimely\u201d call to 911 might have kept the man alive.<\/p>\n
But state health regulators say none of those things happened.<\/p>\n
Citing the man\u2019s death and other \u201cfailures,\u201d the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration filed an emergency order Tuesday shutting down Our Dream ALF, a 42-bed home on Palm Avenue in Hialeah. The facility is licensed to house people with chronic mental illness, and had 26 people living there earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The emergency suspension order, signed July 28 by AHCA Deputy Secretary Kimberly Smoak, demands the home\u2019s closure by 5 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cResident care standards are virtually non-existent,\u201d the AHCA order said. \u201cThis lack of urgency during medical emergencies is a cause of great concern for the care of residents and places residents at risk of harm that is likely to reoccur.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our Dream\u2019s owner, Maria Daisy Fundora, did not respond to Herald calls to the facility or to a cell phone.<\/p>\n
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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration ordered Our Dream ALF, 1630-1640 Palm Ave. in Hialeah, to be shut down by 5 p.m. Friday, July 31, saying,\u2018Resident care standards are virtually non-existent.\u2019 Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n
ACHA officials did not respond to the Herald\u2019s queries.<\/p>\n
Unused meds found in shower<\/p>\n
In one of the order\u2019s most striking findings, inspectors said they found medication for 19 residents unused in a bin in the administrator\u2019s bathroom shower \u2014 including four months worth of medication for one resident who was hospitalized three times.<\/p>\n
Medication records \u201cerroneously and incorrectly indicated that these medications were provided to the nineteen residents as prescribed by their health care providers rather than the reality that the medications resided unused in a bin in the administrator\u2019s office,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n
Closures at facilities such as Our Dream are rare \u2014 especially homes that provide care for people with behavioral health challenges. Community mental health agencies rely heavily on ALFs to house clients who often can not live independently.<\/p>\n
Our Dream\u2019s license expired last January, records show, though it is common for ALFs to continue to operate as state health administrators review their licenses, sometimes for months, before they are renewed. State records list 643 assisted living facilities across the state whose licenses are listed as \u201cin review.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Alone in a pool of blood\u2019<\/p>\n
Health inspectors visited the home July 20, as part of a routine relicensure survey, the order said. Their findings and observations are included in the 34-page order, which was attached to a gate outside the home Thursday, as the order requires.<\/p>\n
Inspectors faulted the home for the care rendered to another client, identified as \u201cResident 1,\u201d who needed help with bathing, dressing, medication and \u201cself care\u201d in general. Resident 1 suffered two falls: One on March 26, that sent the resident to the hospital bleeding, with a facial abrasion and contusion and a closed head injury, the order said.<\/p>\n
Following a second fall, on April 20, the resident was found \u201calone in a pool of blood.\u201d The resident suffered a kidney injury, dehydration and low blood pressure.<\/p>\n
A doctor prescribed a diabetes drug and ordered that the resident be seen by a kidney specialist within two weeks. But neither of those things happened, either.<\/p>\n
Three weeks later, the resident \u2014 the order provides no details, including gender \u2014 was back at the hospital with an \u201caltered mental status,\u201d high blood sugar and other ailments. The resident remains hospitalized, the order said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen asked why the facility failed to update medications and dosage changes when residents returned to the facility after discharge from hospital stays, the [home\u2019s] administrator stated that she \u201chad a lot to do and hadn\u2019t gotten around to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patient not given medication for weeks: state<\/p>\n
\u201cResident 2\u201d underwent \u201cmultiple hospitalizations\u2026due to irate behavior, verbal aggression, disorganized thinking, or hallucinations.\u201d But like Resident 1, the client had not been given medication for several weeks. Records showed the resident asked to be hospitalized after hearing voices.<\/p>\n
The order accused the home of ignoring doctors\u2019 orders for therapeutic diets, such as reduced sugar for people with diabetes. During an early-morning visit on July 22, inspectors documented that all residents were served corn flakes with milk, toast, and caf\u00e9 con leche for breakfast, regardless of their dietary needs.<\/p>\n
During another visit that week, inspectors asked to see the home\u2019s power source for use during an electrical outage. They found two generators inside the home, with items \u201cpiled on top.\u201d The generators didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
And when inspectors toured the home on Sunday, they found the temperature inside bedrooms and common areas at between 82 and 85 degrees. \u201cResidents have the right to live in ambient temperatures at or below eighty-one (81) degrees,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n
The order\u2019s most disturbing findings detailed the death of an elderly man on Sunday. Said the order: \u201cStaff members failed to perform CPR appropriately, failed to use the automated external defibrillator (AED), and failed to contact 911 for emergency medical services in a timely manner for the resident who passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n
The resident had been prescribed two heart medications 20 days before his death, including one, the order said, intended to treat high blood pressure and reduce the risk of stroke. \u201cNeither medication was filled or provided to the resident,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n
\u201cConditions at [Our Dream] constitute an emergency that must be immediately addressed by the agency to protect residents and potential residents from the immediate threat and danger posed to their health, safety, and welfare,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n
Miami Herald staff writers Veronica Egui Brito and Sofia Saric contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
This story was originally published July 31, 2026 at 9:13 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An \u2018Emergency Suspension Order,\u2019 dated July 28, 2026, and issued by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-358814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}