Vasona Creek Healthcare Center

Kitchen inspections

The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.

County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health: LHCF - Vasona Creek Healthcare

• Mar 16, 2026 (routine inspection): Green (pass).
  4 violations

  • Proper hot and cold holding temperatures (Major). Inspector’s note: Multiple Potentially Hazardous Food within two 2 door reach in refrigerators and walk in cooler measured above 41F. All temp logs for units state below 40F at 5 am but not temperature measurements after. Ambient temperature for 2 door reach in #1 measured at 70F, ambient temperature for 2 door ...
  • Food contact surfaces clean, sanitized (Minor). Inspector’s note: Washed and wet containers stacked on top of each other. [CA]: Equipment and utensils must be properly air dried after sanitizing and prior to stacking
  • Hot and cold water available (Minor). Inspector’s note: Maximum water temperature at 1 comp prep sink measured at 116F. [CA]: Hot water shall be supplied at a minimum temperature of at least 120°F measured from the faucet throughout facility except at handwash sinks.
  • Equipment, utensils: Approved, in good repair, adequate capacity (Minor). Inspector’s note: Ambient temperature for 2 door reach in #1 measured at 70F, ambient temperature for 2 door reach in #2 measured at 47F, ambient temperature of walk in cooler measured at 48F. Within the walk in cooler's thermostat, it was observed to be set above 40F (~44F). [CA]: All cooling units shall be able to ...

Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. G (Green): Pass. Y (Yellow): Conditional pass; major violations found, follow-up inspection required. R (Red): Closed; an imminent health hazard was found. Major violation: The county's critical (major) violation flag.

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Vasona Creek Healthcare Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. 24/7 Nursing Care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. Hospice Services (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Offers diabetes care. Diabetes Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Provides transportation. Transportation to appointments (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room. I have visited a nearby skilled nursing facility and I wasn’t impressed – Very disappointing with ridiculous fees for a private room. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose. 2.0 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

The Terraces of Los Gatos, Los Gatos. 0.7 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Sutter Care At Home, Saratoga. 4.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

CVS Pharmacy. 0.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 95032 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fresenius Medical Care Los Gatos, Los Gatos, 2.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita Los Gatos Dialysis, Los Gatos, 2.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Shc Blossom Valley, San Jose, 4.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

31 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 95032.
Sutter Care At Home, office in Saratoga, 4.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Redwood Hospice, office in San Jose, 5.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care Of Northern C, office in San Jose, 7.1 miles away, straight line

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, San Jose. 1.9 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)

Wildfire risk to homes

In Los Gatos, CA, risk to homes is greater than 68% of communities in California and 93% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole town or city, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: very high. By hazard: inland flooding relatively high, wildfire relatively moderate, tornado very low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very 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.