Assisted Living and Memory Care
Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community
223 East Bakerview Road, Bellingham, WA 98226 · Map
Licensed for 115 residents
Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community is a state-licensed assisted living, memory care community in Bellingham, Washington. It is licensed for 115 residents. Lilisity publishes no score or ranking for this community; the details below come from the state licensing record.
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Area costs
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What the public record shows
Gathered by Lilisity from state and federal sources. Communities can’t edit this part of the page.
State inspections
Latest inspection report: 2026-02. See the record
License
Active, 115 residents
Assisted Living Facility 1913.
Nearest emergency room
20.7 miles
Island Hospital, rated 4 of 5 stars by CMS.
Side by side with nearby communities
The 4 nearest communities that offer assisted living, by straight-line distance. Prices are starting prices each community publishes; we never show estimates.
| Community | Distance | Licensed capacity | Published starting price | License | Inspection citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community this community | 115 | Not published | Active | 12 investigation reports, 4 enforcement letters | |
| Highgate Senior Living | 0.4 mi | 77 | Not published | Active | 7 investigation reports, 1 enforcement letter |
| The Bellingham at Orchard | 0.7 mi | 76 | Not published | Active | 2 investigation reports, 0 enforcement letters |
| Orchard Park Assisted Living | 0.7 mi | 96 | Not published | Active | 5 investigation reports, 0 enforcement letters |
| Silverado Bellingham | 0.9 mi | 85 | Not published | Active | 1 investigation report, 1 enforcement letter |
State inspection record12 investigation reports, 4 enforcement letters
- Latest inspection report
- February 2026
- Inspection reports posted
- 2
- Investigation reports posted
- 12
- Enforcement letters
- 4
- Fire inspection reports (State Fire Marshal)
- 3
Enforcement letters
- July 25, 2025: Imposition of civil fine, $800 in civil fines, after a complaint investigation on July 15, 2025
Training and home care aide certification requirements: The licensee failed to ensure two staff completed 70-hour basic training within 120 days from their date of hire. This failure resulted in one staff member not having a basic training certificate and the other staff member not having the necessary training related to their job duties and placed all 96 residents at risk for compromised care and safety. - April 10, 2025: Imposition of civil fine, $700 in civil fines, after a follow-up visit on March 28, 2025
Medication services: The licensee failed to ensure three residents received medications as prescribed by their physicians. These failures resulted in the three residents not receiving their medications as prescribed, causing distress, and placed them at risk for medical complications. - December 19, 2024: Imposition of civil fines, $1,300 in civil fines, after a follow-up visit on December 6, 2024
Background checks: Washington state name and date of birth background check: Valid for two years: National fingerprint background check: Valid indefinitely: The licensee failed to ensure three staff completed a Washington state name and date of birth background check every two years. This resulted in three staff working with vulnerable adults while having unknown criminal backgrounds with potentially disqualifying crimes and placed all 95 residents at risk for harm.
What is specialty training and who is required to take it?: The licensee failed to ensure five staff completed specialty dementia training. This failure resulted in the five staff not having the training on how to effectively and safely provide care to residents living with dementia and placed all 28 residents with a dementia diagnosis at risk for compromised care and safety.
Who in an assisted living facility is required to complete continuing education training each year, how many hours of continuing education are required, and when must they be completed?: The licensee failed to ensure four staff completed 12-hours of continuing education (CE) per year. This failure resulted in the four staff not having their continuing education training up-to-date and placed all 95 residents at risk for compromised care and safety. - December 9, 2024: Imposition of civil fine, $500 in civil fines, after a follow-up visit on November 27, 2024
Training and home care aide certification requirements: The licensee failed to ensure three staff completed 70-hour basic training within 120 days from their date of hire. This failure resulted in three staff not having the necessary training related to their job duties and placed all 96 residents at risk for compromised care and safety.
Investigation reports
- September 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- May 2025
- February 2025
- February 2025
- and 6 more on the state’s site
Inspection reports
See every report on the state’s site →
What these terms mean
DSHS: Inspections are “conducted at least every 18 months to review facility compliance with applicable rules and regulations and resident safety.”
Investigations: “In response to reported concerns, the department checks to ensure the facility is in compliance with applicable rules and regulations.”
Enforcement actions: “Letters summarizing action taken by the Department to compel a return to compliance.”
Fire inspections (assisted living): “Conducted by the State Fire Marshal upon initial licensing, complaint or on an annual basis.”
Limitations (adult family homes): “A determination, typically for the duration of the license, that limits the type of residents who can be housed in a specific area of the home.”
Informal Dispute Resolution (IDR): “The provider’s right to request an opportunity to present information that might allow the department to change a finding that the facility did not meet a rule or requirement.”
Civil fines: “Monetary penalties for instances of noncompliance with state law.”
Conditions: “Requirements placed on the license that limit or prevent or direct specific facility actions until deficiencies are corrected.”
Stop placement: “An order that temporarily prevents the facility from admitting any additional resident(s) until deficiencies identified are corrected.”
Revocation: “The legal action of taking away the facility’s license.”
Summary suspension: “The legal action that immediately suspends the provider’s license.”
Complaint investigation report: “the written report for complaint investigations that result in a citation.”
For adult family homes, state law (RCW 70.128.280) has DSHS post three years of inspection letters, statements of deficiencies, notices of return to compliance and enforcement notices, and remove a violation or enforcement remedy that is deleted or rescinded on appeal. DSHS: “The length of time for completion and posting of final documents, including amended documents, will vary.” DSHS: “To protect residents’ privacy, information in these reports may be blocked out if it is confidential or could identify a resident.” Dates are the month DSHS lists beside each report, or the date printed on an enforcement letter. This community is licensed for 115 residents; larger communities are inspected and investigated more often, so read counts with size in mind. Source: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Residential Care Services, report pages read October 15, 2026. Always visit in person and ask the community about anything listed here.
License and ownershipActive license
- License type
- Assisted Living Facility
- License number
- 1913
- License status
- Active
- Licensed capacity
- 115
- County
- Whatcom County
- Contact
- Jennifer Graham
Source: Washington state licensing records (agency listing), retrieved 2026-09-09. Licensing status is a matter of public record; it is not a quality rating.
Contact name from the Washington licensing record, as of Sep 9, 2026.
Paying with Medicaid and other programsHow Medicaid pays for care in Washington, and other programs
How Medicaid pays for care in Washington
- Assisted living Medicaid service packages: Adult Residential Care, Enhanced Adult Residential Care, Enhanced Adult Residential Care - Specialized Dementia Care Services, Assisted Living. Yes. Assisted living facilities that serve Medicaid residents offer one or more service packages, which set the level of care and support the facility provides. Use the state search to find facilities that accept Medicaid. (state page)
Ask the community whether it accepts Medicaid.
Location and nearby careNearest hospital 20.7 mi, nursing home 1.0 mi, pharmacy 0.1 mi
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Island Hospital, Anacortes. 20.7 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Alderwood Park Health and Rehab of Cascadia, Bellingham. 1.0 mile away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Eden Home Health, Bellingham. 0.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 0.1 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 98226 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Mount Baker Kidney At Home, Bellingham, 0.9 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Ferndale Dialysis, Ferndale, 5.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 4 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 98226.
Eden Hospice, office in Bellingham, 0.5 miles away, straight line
Whatcom Hospice, office in Bellingham, 4.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Peacehealth, Bellingham. 1.3 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 riskFEMA overall risk relatively high; outside FEMA's high-risk flood areas
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 high, wildfire relatively low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively moderate, 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.
Questions to ask on a tour10 questions picked for this community from its record
Picked for this community from its record. Ask them in person and write down the answers.
- The state recorded a finding in September 2025. What was it, and how was it fixed?
- What does the base rate include, and when did rates last go up?
- How many caregivers work in memory care during the day, the evening and overnight, and for how many residents?
- What dementia training does each caregiver get before working alone, and every year after?
- How do staff respond when a resident is agitated, frightened or tries to leave?
- How many caregivers are on duty during the day and at night?
- What happens if care needs increase? When would someone need to move?
- What fees are charged at move-in?
- How do you tell families about falls, illness or changes?
- How long have the executive director and the head of care been here?
What we checked12 public sources we searched, with dates
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Residential Care Services inspection records | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Washington Medicaid provider list | Sep 9, 2026 | Not on the state list we checked. These lists are often incomplete. |
| 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 relatively 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 |
Common questionsAnswers to 4 questions families ask
What type of care does Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community provide?
Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community is licensed by the state of Washington for assisted living, memory care in Bellingham, Washington. Its licensed capacity is 115 residents.
Does Lilisity rate Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community?
No. We publish state licensing details for Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community but no score, rating, or ranking. Only communities on the Top Communities list or with a Senior Living Alliance Excellence Award, both based on phone-verified resident and family interviews, are ranked.
How much does Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community cost?
Assisted Living in Washington typically starts at $3,950 to $5,300 a month. Based on 130 communities that publish prices. These are area figures, not this community's price. Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community does not publish its prices.
How do I contact Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community?
Visit Spring Creek Retirement & Assisted Living Community at 223 East Bakerview Road, Bellingham, WA 98226.
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