Willow Creek Retirement Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2003-08-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (601) 863-4201 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Willow Creek Retirement Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (2★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 65.5/100, placing it #10143 of 14703 facilities nationally and #96 of 202 in Mississippi. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Willow Creek Retirement Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 55 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 31 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 13 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 10 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 37 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 49.5%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,018. 7 substantiated complaints were recorded across the 5-year period — families should request details from the facility or review CMS inspection findings. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,018, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 44.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Willow Creek Retirement Center ranks 10143rd out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 65.5/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within MS, it ranks 96th out of 202 nursing homes. In Byram, it ranks 1st out of 2 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #5,372 nationally and RN hours rank #8,269 nationally (#117 in MS). Our composite quality score of 65.5/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Byram, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/mississippi/byram/