Millcreek Health Center

    3520 Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, UT, 84106
    3.5 · 11 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Compassionate staff serious safety failures

    I'm torn: many staff were kind, compassionate, and the community often felt like family - residents seemed pleased and some employees clearly care. But my sister was missing for 48+ hours, they delayed communication, didn't alert our family or file a police report, and staff response felt inadequate; the place seemed understaffed, filthy, and unsafe. Because of those serious safety and communication failures, I can't fully recommend it despite the good people who work there.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.55 · 11 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.6
    • Staff

      3.3
    • Meals

      3.5
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Kind and compassionate staff
    • Employees committed / give their best
    • Residents report feeling grateful and pleased with services
    • Great community atmosphere
    • Excellent customer service with a personal touch
    • Care described as feeling like family
    • Provides peace of mind for some families
    • Fantastic quality of care (in many reports)
    • Viewed as a great place to work by some employees

    Cons

    • Delayed or inadequate communication
    • Serious safety incidents (missing resident reported)
    • No police report filed for a documented incident
    • Failure to notify family about incidents
    • Poor staff response to emergencies
    • Inadequate medical care and missed medication
    • Understaffing and inconsistent staffing levels
    • Only a few staff appear to try; uneven staff performance
    • Unsanitary / filthy conditions
    • Perceived incompetence among some staff
    • Perception of profit-driven focus / 'money grab' and a toxic environment

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the review summaries is highly mixed, with a strong divide between reviewers praising the staff, care, and community atmosphere and those citing serious safety, staffing, and management concerns. Many reviews emphasize compassionate, attentive caregivers who create a family-like environment and provide peace of mind for residents and families. At the same time, several reviews raise alarming issues including missing residents, delayed or absent incident reporting, poor emergency response, and hygiene concerns. These competing themes suggest variability in resident experience that may depend on specific shifts, staff members, or units within the facility.

    Care quality and staff: A substantial portion of the reviews highlight excellent, compassionate care. Multiple summaries describe staff as kind, caring, and committed, with employees who "give their best" and create a personal touch that makes residents and families feel pleased and grateful. Many reviewers explicitly recommend the facility, noting that care "feels like family" and provides peace of mind. However, there is an equally significant set of comments describing inconsistent performance: some staff are labelled incompetent, and only a few are said to "try," implying reliance on a small cohort of dedicated employees while others underperform. This unevenness in staff competence and engagement appears to be a core driver of the polarized impressions.

    Safety, incident response, and communication: The most serious concerns in the reviews are safety-related. Specific accusations include a missing resident for 48+ hours, failure to file a police report, failure to alert family members, and poor staff responses to these events. There are also mentions of a resident needing medication that was not provided. These items indicate potential lapses in resident monitoring, emergency protocols, incident documentation, and family communication. Multiple comments about delayed or inadequate communication reinforce that families sometimes learned about critical events late or not at all. Taken together, these reports suggest systemic weaknesses in incident management, escalation procedures, and transparency with families.

    Operations, staffing, and facilities: Understaffing is a recurring theme and is linked in reviews to inadequate care and poor cleanliness. Comments about a filthy environment and understaffing raise red flags about daily operations, infection control, and maintenance. The claim of a "toxic environment" and a "money grab" implies management or cultural issues that may demoralize staff and hinder quality improvement. When employees feel unsupported or when staffing levels are insufficient, even otherwise caring staff can be overburdened, which helps explain the coexistence of very positive caregiver interactions and severe operational failings.

    Customer service, community, and reputation: Several reviews specifically call out excellent customer service and a welcoming community atmosphere, and many reviewers would highly recommend the center. Those positive reports typically focus on interpersonal aspects—staff warmth, personal attention, and a familial feel—rather than institutional processes. This suggests the facility has strengths in creating relationships and day-to-day resident engagement, even while struggling with policy-driven or resource-driven issues such as incident reporting and staffing.

    Notable patterns and implications: The reviews collectively point to a facility with strong individual caregivers and a potentially supportive community culture that is undermined in places by inconsistent staffing, operational lapses, and serious safety/communication failures. The dichotomy—some families experiencing "fantastic care" and others reporting missing residents and unreported incidents—indicates that outcomes may vary dramatically depending on timing, staffing, and which employees are on duty. There is insufficient information in the reviews about dining and activities; those areas are neither praised nor criticized explicitly, so no reliable conclusions can be drawn.

    Conclusion: Strengths are clear around compassionate staff, customer service, and a community atmosphere that many residents and families appreciate. The critical weaknesses—safety incidents, poor incident reporting, communication failures, understaffing, hygiene concerns, and inconsistent staff competence—are serious and actionable. For families and prospective residents, the mixed reviews suggest due diligence: ask for details about staffing levels, incident reporting policies, staff training, supervision, and sanitation protocols; request recent inspection reports and examples of how the facility addressed any past safety incidents. For the facility, priorities should include improving staffing stability, strengthening monitoring and emergency response procedures, enforcing hygiene and maintenance standards, and rebuilding trust through transparent communication and reliable incident documentation.

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    About Millcreek Health Center

    Millcreek Health Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, sits at 3520 South Highland Drive and has 61 certified beds, usually filled about 79% of the time, with around 48 residents living there. The facility offers tours so families and future residents can get a good look at the buildings, meet staff and current residents, and see daily life firsthand. People there can find several levels of care including assisted living, independent living for more active seniors, memory care for Alzheimer's or dementia, and skilled nursing services. Nurses and trained staff help with medical needs and day-to-day activities, but nurse hours per resident each day run at 2.31, a bit lower than the state average of 4.1, and there's no information available on nurse turnover.

    Ownership rests fully with Beaver Valley Hospital, and managers Walter Myers and Jared Swain have run things since 2015. Millcreek operates as a for-profit corporation, participates in Medicaid, and isn't part of a chain or located within a hospital. The center has amenities for elders in a well-kept, modern setting, providing things like a chapel, meditation room, beauty salon, barbershop, and a therapy gym. There are on-site meal programs serving one or two meals daily, housekeeping, and laundry options to help residents. Both family and resident councils talk about changes and programs, and the building's fully sprinklered for safety.

    Recreation and therapy are important at Millcreek, and the team offers post-acute care, short-term rehab, long-term care, respite, and hospice care. People with memory care needs get special attention, though this usually comes with higher costs compared to standard care for seniors. The staff follows personal treatment plans to promote health and independence, and they make efforts to respect individual preferences. The place aims to deliver good care and attentive service, but official inspection reports show 14 deficiencies, including two related to infections. One report noted a quality of life issue where staff didn't make sure residents maintained their ability to do daily activities without a medical reason, and another pointed out the need for a better infection prevention program-these issues didn't result in actual harm, but inspectors said they could have. There aren't any published ratings for nurse staffing, health inspection, quality measures, or overall performance yet, and Millcreek doesn't offer RN-only staffing. The center's not designated as a special focus facility or as a continuing care retirement community. Millcreek Health Center focuses on health care, long-term support, and doing its best to provide a decent, community-focused option for older adults and those needing ongoing help.

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