Nursing home
Spring Creek Healthcare Center
4600 South Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84117 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Cascades Healthcare (20 facilities) · 92 certified beds
Spring Creek Healthcare Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Salt Lake City, Utah. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.42 hours per resident per day, below the Utah average of 4.06. Its most recent inspection on Feb 3, 2025 cited 12 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $53,472In CMS records: 2 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Spring Creek Healthcare Center compares
This facility vs. the Utah and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Utah avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.42 | 4.06 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.91 | 1.19 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.24 | 2.37 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 67.5% | 51.7% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 12.0 | 9.1 | 9.5 | above 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $53,472, 2 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Spring Creek Healthcare Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - 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 · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - 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 · Feb 3, 2025
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - 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 · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025 - Potential for harm
Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Feb 3, 2025
About this facility
- Address
- 4600 South Highland Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84117 - CMS certification #
- 465049
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 92
- Avg residents/day
- 83.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1974-04-22
- Chain
- Cascades Healthcare (20 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Cascades Healthcare
Cascades Healthcare operates 20 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Cascades Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, diabetes care
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Spring 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.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- St Mark'S Hospital, Salt Lake City. 1.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Highland Care Center, Holladay. 0.6 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Quality Solace Services Lifecares (Hh), Holladay. 0.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Hyland Pharmacy. 0.7 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 84117 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- 463501 Intermountain Medical Center Dialysis Services, Murray, 2.8 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
463502 Utah Dialysis Lab, Murray, 2.8 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
462530 Fresenius Kidney Care Wasatch, Salt Lake City, 3.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 38 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 84117.
Quality Solace Services Hospice, office in Holladay, 0.9 miles away, straight line
Solstice Hospice And Palliative Care, LLC, office in Salt Lake City, 1.5 miles away, straight line
Bristol Hospice - Utah Ii, LLC, office in Murray, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Charles Fehlauer, MD, Salt Lake City. 0.7 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 high. By hazard: inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively low, 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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| 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: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| 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 Healthcare Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Spring Creek Healthcare Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Spring Creek Healthcare Center staffed?
Spring Creek Healthcare Center reports 3.42 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Utah average of 4.06.
Has Spring Creek Healthcare Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 12 deficiencies.
How many beds does Spring Creek Healthcare Center have?
Spring Creek Healthcare Center is certified for 92 beds.