Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

Federal wage and hour cases

The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.

• Findings for Jun 9, 2021 to Jun 8, 2023. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $22,282 owed to 3 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Driftwood Healthcare Center- Santa Cruz (Driftwood Santa Cruz Operating Company LP). Case 1981890.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Nov 1, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Feb 20, 2024. 4 violations cited (1 serious, 3 other). Penalties: $5,615 proposed, $5,615 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Mariner Health Care Management Company. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Other than serious: Cited rule 2340.2(b). Penalty $185 proposed, $185 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 2340.16(c). Penalty $185 proposed, $185 now. To be fixed by Feb 20, 2024.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 2500.8(a). Penalty $185 proposed, $185 now.
  • Serious: Cited rule 4070(A). Penalty $5,060 proposed, $5,060 now.
• Jul 19, 2018: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Apr 8, 2019. 6 violations cited (6 other). Penalties: $4,200 proposed, $4,200 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Mariner Health Care. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Other than serious: Cited rule 2340.12(a). Penalty $600 proposed, $600 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 3273(A). Penalty $750 proposed, $750 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 3314(G)(2)(A). Penalty $750 proposed, $750 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 3317(B). Penalty $750 proposed, $750 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 3362(G). Penalty $750 proposed, $750 now.
  • Other than serious: Cited rule 4650(F). Penalty $600 proposed, $600 now.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz. 1.7 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Santa Cruz Post Acute, Santa Cruz. 1.0 mile away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Sutter Care At Home, Santa Cruz. 1.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

CVS Pharmacy. 1.1 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 95062 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Shc Capitola, Capitola, 1.2 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Shc Wb Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 1.5 miles away, straight line
Srs-Watsonville Dialysis, LLC, Watsonville, 10.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

7 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 95062.
Hospice Of Santa Cruz County, office in Scotts Valley, 6.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Christopher Ogrady, MD, Watsonville. 10.6 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively low. By hazard: inland flooding very low, coastal flooding very low, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively low, earthquake relatively high. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.