Desert Springs Health Care LLC
Strong Medicare quality ratings; families often praise clean and well-maintained facility. Still worth an in-person visit.
based on 90 Google reviews

Watch Desert Springs Health Care LLC
Get an email when new inspections, ratings, or penalties are published for this facility.
We’ll only email you about this — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
What this means for your family
This facility is highly regarded for its cleanliness and dedicated rehabilitation staff, making it a strong candidate for recovery. However, because multiple reviewers have raised serious concerns regarding medication management and communication, we strongly recommend asking the administration for their specific protocols on medication oversight and how they ensure family members are kept informed.
Google Reviews
Google Reviews
90 reviews on Google“Desert Springs Health Care LLC receives overwhelmingly positive feedback for its clean, well-maintained environment and friendly, attentive staff. While many families praise the facility for its successful rehabilitation programs and compassionate care, there are isolated but serious reports regarding medication management and communication responsiveness that families should investigate during their tour.”
Quality Themes
Tap a score for detailsStrengths
- Clean and well-maintained facility
- Friendly and professional nursing staff
- Effective rehabilitation therapy programs
- Welcoming and cheerful atmosphere
Concerns
- Inconsistent medication administration and management (mentioned by 2 reviewers)
- Poor communication and lack of responsiveness to family inquiries (mentioned by 2 reviewers)
- Understaffing during night shifts (mentioned by 2 reviewers)
Rating Trends
Tap a year to see what changed
Distribution · 93 analyzed
How They Respond to Reviews
Questions for Your Tour
- 1Given the importance of consistent medication management, could you walk me through the protocol for ensuring residents receive their prescriptions accurately and on time?
- 2How does your team ensure families stay well-informed and receive timely updates regarding their loved one's health or care changes?
- 3With a 3-star staffing rating, how do you manage shift transitions and ensure adequate support for residents during the night hours?
- 4I noticed the facility has a wonderful reputation for its rehabilitation programs; how are these integrated into the daily routine for residents who need ongoing therapy?
- 5What proactive steps are taken to address the recent state violations to ensure the facility maintains its high standards of care?
- 6What kind of social activities or community events are planned to keep residents engaged and foster that cheerful atmosphere mentioned by so many families?
Personalized based on this facility's data
Key Review Excerpts
“My mom was there for several months for skilled nursing and rehabilitation. They successfully helped her build back her strength and now she is home. The facility is very clean, bright and has an overall good feel to it.”
“Desert Springs keep the rooms clean and the residents too. There is a TV set in each room and it is good size so it can be seen from their beds. My Mom has made several friends there. The meals are served on time an they are good meals and good normal size portions.”
“Our Mom spent her last months on earth in this wonderful place! Caring for people at the end of life can be exhausting, but these wonderful people do it with excellence and dignity.”
Staffing
Staffing Hours
per resident/day · Medicare 2026Both RN and total nursing hours are below national benchmarks. This can mean less clinical attention per resident, so ask about their staffing plan.
Quality Measures
Quality Measures
Resident outcomes compared with national, state, and local averages · 17 measures
15
measures
2
measures
Residents with depression symptoms
Highly dependent on how each facility screens and codes depressive symptoms, so it varies widely between facilities.
Residents on antipsychotic medication
Residents whose walking got worse
Residents vaccinated for pneumonia
Residents on anti-anxiety or sleep medication
Residents whose bladder or bowel control got worse
Short-stay residents vaccinated for the flu
Short-stay residents vaccinated for pneumonia
Short-stay residents newly given antipsychotics
US average from Medicare published data
Inspection History
Medicare Inspection History
3-year lookback · Medicare 2026
Desert Springs Health Care has concerning safety issues, with families filing complaints about accident hazards in 2024 and 2026, including one recent case still lacking a correction plan. The facility shows recurring problems with accident prevention, staffing transparency, medication management, and food safety across multiple surveys. While most previous deficiencies have correction dates, the pattern of repeat safety violations and unresolved complaint-triggered issues suggests ongoing operational challenges that families should carefully consider.
Jan 30, 2026Routine11
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Infection Control Deficiencies
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
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
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide appropriate foot care.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Jan 30, 2026Complaint1
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Nov 20, 2024Routine5
Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies
Address patient/client population and determine types of services needed.
Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies
Address subsistence needs for staff and patients.
Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies
Establish procedures for tracking staff and patients during an emergency.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
Post nurse staffing information every day.
May 17, 2024Complaint1
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Jan 26, 2024Routine26
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies
Address patient/client population and determine types of services needed.
Smoke Deficiencies
Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
Miscellaneous Deficiencies
Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
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
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies
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
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
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.
Administration Deficiencies
Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Infection Control Deficiencies
Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.
Infection Control Deficiencies
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
Smoke Deficiencies
Ensure smoke barriers are constructed to a 1 hour fire resistance rating.
Services Deficiencies
Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Miscellaneous Deficiencies
Provide a written emergency evacuation plan.
Miscellaneous Deficiencies
Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed.
Nov 18, 2022Routine4
Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies
Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing.
Smoke Deficiencies
Provide properly protected cooking facilities.
Smoke Deficiencies
Have properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub.
Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies
Have proper fire barriers, ventilation and signs for the transfilling of oxygen.
Federal Penalties
Fine
Jan 30, 2026
$17,215
Ownership & Operations
Who Operates This Facility
Desert Springs Health Care LLC
for profit
Chain Affiliation
Opco Skilled Management
66 facilities nationwide
Chain avg rating: 2.4/5 · Rank 4 of 52
Ownership & Management
Owners
1701 Desert Springs Opco Holdings, LLC
Owner · Organization
Embudo Trust
Owner (parent company) · Organization
Oxford Square LLC
Owner (parent company) · Organization
Rimpau Holdings Trust
Owner (parent company) · Organization
Sasem Investments LLC
Owner (parent company) · Organization
Wellington Hc Partners LLC
Owner (parent company) · Organization
Davidovich, Niv
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Gurwitz, Solomon
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Hagins, Elizabeth
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Kaplan, Esther
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Kaplan, Mordechai
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Mindle, Adam
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Sternshein, Jennifer
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Unger, Jeffrey
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Zimmerman, Caroline
Individual is an Owner, Partner or Trustee of Any Adp of the Snf
Key personnel
Contact
Get in Touch
Contact this facility directly and verify the details that matter most to your family.
References & Resources
Medicare Care Compare
Official Medicare quality ratings, inspections & staffing data
Google Maps
Photos, directions & neighborhood info
Google Reviews
90 reviews from families & visitors
Official Website
Visit desertspringshealth.com
Medicare data downloads
Original nursing home datasets
EveryPlace is a research directory. Facility information is compiled from public sources — Medicare.gov, state licensing portals, Google Places, and publicly available street-level imagery. Listings do not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or advertisement, and we do not accept payment for placement. Families should verify all details directly with the facility and the original sources linked above before making any care decisions. See our Research Policy for our editorial standards, correction process, and image-removal policy.
Nearby Alternatives