Nursing home
Spring Creek
777 Draper Avenue, Joliet, IL 60432 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Saba Healthcare (11 facilities) · 168 certified beds
Spring Creek is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Joliet, Illinois. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 2.70 hours per resident per day, below the Illinois average of 3.49. Its most recent inspection on Oct 25, 2024 cited 10 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $115,684In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Spring Creek compares
This facility vs. the Illinois and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Illinois avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.70 | 3.49 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.33 | 0.73 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.57 | 2.13 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 29.0% | 45.7% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 10.0 | 12.1 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the December 12, 2025 inspection was corrected by December 13, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $115,684, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Spring Creek
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Actual harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 12, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 1, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 777 Draper Avenue
Joliet, IL 60432 - CMS certification #
- 146172
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 168
- Avg residents/day
- 114.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2014-08-14
- Chain
- Saba Healthcare (11 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Saba Healthcare
Saba Healthcare operates 11 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Saba Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Spring Creek using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, works with hospice, transportation, pets allowed
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Spring Creek says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Hospice Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Provides transportation.
Walmart) with transportation included at
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Pets allowed.
Yes, our facility is a pet friendly facility as long as you can provide proof of all up to date required immunizations.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
Semi-private rooms: ranges from $260 to $265/day
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
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.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Sep 29, 2019.
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.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Silver Cross Hospital And Medical Centers, New Lenox. 3.6 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Sunny Hill Nursing Home of Will County, Joliet. 2.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Silver Cross Home Health, New Lenox. 3.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 1.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 60432 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc - Joliet, Joliet, 0.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita New Lenox Home Training, New Lenox, 3.6 miles away, straight line
Davita Renal Center New Lenox, New Lenox, 3.6 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 17 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60432.
Lightways Hospice And Serious Illness Care, office in Joliet, 6.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Illinois, office in Tinley Park, 12.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Dover Hospice Il Chicago Metro, LLC, office in Woodridge, 14.6 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Dupage Medical Group Ltd, Joliet. 4.0 miles away, straight line. 5 geriatric medicine doctors 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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively high, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively low, earthquake very low. 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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Spring Creek a good nursing home?
CMS gives Spring Creek an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 1/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Spring Creek staffed?
Spring Creek reports 2.70 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Illinois average of 3.49.
Has Spring Creek had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 10 deficiencies.
How many beds does Spring Creek have?
Spring Creek is certified for 168 beds.