Optalis Health & Rehabilitation of Whitehall

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.

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 15, 2024: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Aug 1, 2025. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Whitehall SNF LLC DBA SKLD Whitehall.

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

Mercy Health Lakeshore Campus, Shelby. 14.5 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Hillcrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Community, North Muskegon. 9.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Community Home Health Care Of West Michigan, Inc, Muskegon. 10.2 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 9.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 49461 as metropolitan (metropolitan high commuting).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Davita Apple Avenue Dialysis, Muskegon, 13.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Muskegon Dialysis, Muskegon, 14.6 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Rfmc West Norton - Muskegon, Muskegon, 14.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)

Hospice

9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 49461.
Harbor Hospice, office in Muskegon, 12.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Trinity Health At Home - Grand Haven, office in Grand Haven, 24.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Spectrum Health Primary Care Partners, Ludington. 39.2 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: very low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, coastal flooding very low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, 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.