Desert Springs Post Acute — Palm Desert, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Desert Springs Post Acute, a 178-bed nursing home at 74-350 Country Club Drive, Palm Desert, California. Every figure below is copied from data the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes about nursing homes that take Medicare or Medicaid. We have not added our own judgment to it.

The record at a glance

Federal ID (CCN)	555339
Legal business name	Legal Business Name Not Available
Address	74-350 Country Club Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92260
Phone listed with CMS	(760) 341-0261
Ownership type	For profit – Limited Liability company
Certified beds	178
Average residents per day	165.5
Certified since	February 9, 1989
Overall CMS rating	1 out of 5
Health inspection rating	1 out of 5
Staffing rating	2 out of 5
Quality measures rating	4 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	49.0%
Most recent standard inspection	April 24, 2026

CMS scores nursing homes from one to five stars. The health inspection rating is set relative to other nursing homes in the same state, so a one-star home is in the bottom fifth in California, not the bottom fifth nationally. Staffing and quality measure ratings are scored against national thresholds.

Federal penalties

CMS’s penalty file lists 3 federal penalties against this facility: 2 fines totalling $74,424, and 1 denial of payment for new admissions. A denial of payment means CMS stopped paying the home for residents admitted after a set date until the problem was fixed.

Inspectors have cited this home 106 times since January 2024

3 of those were at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 55 came from complaints rather than routine inspections. Every one of them is listed below, with its date and what the rule required.

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Inspection citations since January 2024

CMS records 106 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 12, 2024 and July 1, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jul 1, 2026	F0600	Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint, under dispute (IDR))	G — Isolated, Actual harm	No plan of correction on file
Jul 1, 2026	F0745	Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. (complaint, under dispute (IDR))	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	No plan of correction on file
Apr 24, 2026	F0773	Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Apr 24, 2026	F0810	Provide special eating equipment and utensils for residents who need them and appropriate assistance.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Apr 24, 2026	F0584	Honor the resident’s right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (complaint)	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Apr 24, 2026	F0658	Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Apr 24, 2026	F0698	Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Jul 15, 2024	F0689	Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint)	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Jul 30, 2024
Jan 12, 2024	F0686	Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. (complaint)	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Jan 25, 2024

The wording in the third column is CMS’s own plain-language summary of the federal rule that was cited, not a description of what happened. This table shows every one of the 3 citations at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 97 are in the CMS file linked below.

How to read scope and severity

Every citation gets a letter from A to L. The letter carries two things at once: how serious the problem was, and how many residents it reached.

Severity	Isolated	Pattern	Widespread
Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety	J	K	L
Actual harm	G	H	I
No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm	D	E	F
No actual harm, potential for minimal harm	A	B	C

“Immediate jeopardy” is CMS’s term for a situation that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death. It requires the home to act at once.

What this page does not tell you

• A citation is an inspector’s finding against a federal rule. It is not a court judgment, and the facility may be disputing it. Citations marked “under dispute” above are in CMS’s formal review process.
• Citation counts partly reflect how often a home was inspected and how many complaints were filed about it. A home with more citations has not automatically given worse care than one with fewer.
• Bigger homes have more residents, more staff and more inspections, so they tend to accumulate more citations.
• None of this says anything about the care any one resident received. A home with a clean record can still fail somebody, and a home with a bad record can be caring for your mother well.
• This is a snapshot. CMS updates these files monthly, and the figures here are from the file dated August 1, 2026.

Where this comes from

• Ratings, ownership, beds and penalties: CMS Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py), file dated August 1, 2026.
• Citations: CMS Health Deficiencies dataset (r5ix-sfxw), file dated August 1, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024.
• This facility on the government’s own site: Medicare Care Compare.
• Retrieved August 29, 2026. Our method is set out in Editorial policy and How we count.

For the facility

If anything on this page is wrong, out of date or missing context, we will correct it. Desert Springs Post Acute and anyone acting for it can reach the watchdog team through our corrections and right of reply page. We publish the response alongside the record.