Desert Springs Post Acute
Nursing Home · Palm Desert, California 92260
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The city
Living in Palm Desert, CA
Palm Desert sits in the Coachella Valley, offering nurses a relaxed desert lifestyle with abundant sunshine, golf courses, and upscale shopping along El Paseo. It's a resort community popular with retirees and seasonal residents, giving healthcare workers a calm, scenic backdrop between shifts.
Browse roles in Palm Desert- State price level · California
- 110.7
- 11% above the national average
- Median gross rent
- $1,778/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024
Who they are
You would step into Desert Springs Post Acute on Country Club Drive in Palm Desert as part of a PACS skilled-nursing and post-acute team that covers short-term rehab and long-term care.
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More about Desert Springs Post Acute
The RN Supervisor role on the board is part-time; pay in public listings runs about $48–$52 an hour depending on experience, and our own posting sits at $52. Day to day that means leading and mentoring the nursing team and watching over clinical operations while therapy colleagues work ADLs, strength, and balance with residents coming back from surgery or a fall. Families who visit talk about caring staff at the stations, decent meals, and a patio that stays kept. Long-stay quality measures look stronger than the overall CMS picture—low decline in mobility and ADLs, high pneumonia vaccination—so the clinical outcomes side has bright spots you can point to. You should also know the hard numbers before you apply: CMS gives the building 1 star overall (health inspection 1, staffing 2, quality measures 4), RN hours run only about a quarter-hour per resident day, staff turnover sits near 45–50%, and the name is shifting toward Willow Springs Healthcare Center. If part-time supervisor work in Palm Desert desert post-acute still fits how you want to practice, this is the setting as it stands.
Why nurses stay
How they describe the culture
What nurses say in reviews
CMS overall 1 star (health inspection 1, staffing 2, quality measures 4, long-stay quality measures 5). Family-facing notes describe pleasant caring staff, nurses at stations, good meals, kept grounds, and rehab support after surgery or falls. No large nurse-review sample with recommend percentages appears in the facts.
The good
- RN Supervisor pay about $48–$52/hour DOE, with our posting at $52
- Part-time RN Supervisor scheduling on the listing
- Clear charge-style work leading and mentoring the nursing team
- Short-term rehab plus long-term care under one roof
- Families describe caring staff, good meals, and a kept patio
- Stronger long-stay quality measures (mobility/ADLs, pneumonia vaccination)
The hard parts
- CMS overall 1-star rating and 1-star health inspection
- RN hours only about 0.25–0.26 HPRD and weekend RN near 0.20
- Staff turnover roughly 44–50% and RN turnover about 46–55%
- Dozens of health deficiencies, fines, and a payment denial on record
“I came for the sign-on bonus. I stayed because on my hardest night, my whole team stayed with me.”
The reality check
Before you decide
Quick facts
- Relationship
- Direct employer
- Roles last seen active
- Jul 28, 2026
- Website
- desertsprings-pa.com ↗
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Director of Staff Development (DSD) - Willow Springs
$73k–$80k/yr
Palm Desert, California
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