A Jeffersontown assisted living and memory care home has gone up for sale after failing more than half of the state inspections conducted since it opened, including one tied to a resident's death. Spring House, located at 1760 Plantside Drive in east Jefferson County, has been listed for sale since September, even as it continues operating under Canopy Senior Living.
The property has been listed for sale since September 2026, according to WHAS11, which reported that the building's owners are trying to attract a different owner or landlord that has more experience in senior living homes. Spring House opened in fall 2023 and is managed by Canopy Senior Living, a company based in Atlanta, while the building itself is owned by various LLCs. Saurabh Sam Patel, associated with one of those entities, Navra LLC, said there should be no interruption to the residents at Spring House if the building is sold to a different owner.
A Pattern of Failed Inspections
Spring House had failed four of seven state inspections conducted by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services since it opened. The violations cited included not locking away medications correctly, being understaffed, inadequate oversight of residents self-administering medications, and failure to track residents entering and leaving the building. An inspection in August validated complaints about medication refills, and an inspector found that the facility failed to complete and maintain an individualized medication plan for an unnamed resident.
The stakes of those lapses became tragically clear in March 2024, when a resident died after sustaining severe injuries from tipping over in a wheelchair during transport in the facility's van, the station reported. Jennifer McCurley moved her mother, Virginia, out of Spring House in August after Virginia had lived there for less than a year, according to the same reporting.
Former Staffer Says Some Residents Can't Afford to Leave
Angela Gonzalez, a former Spring House activities director who quit this fall, said some residents want to move but cannot afford to do so. She told the station she hopes that if Navra LLC sells the building, new landlords will choose a different operating company. Even so, Gonzalez said she and others would return because they love Spring House and its people.
CEO Denies Closure Is Coming
Canopy Senior Living CEO Dennis Stamey said Spring House is not considering closing and that the listing is not a closure announcement. Stamey said the company's focus remains on supporting residents, families, and staff, though he has not specifically responded to questions about whether Spring House should remain open despite the repeated failed inspections, per the station's reporting.
A Statewide Inspection Backlog
Spring House's troubles surface against the backdrop of a broader struggle inside Kentucky's long-term care oversight system. Kentucky surveyors completed an in-depth, multi-day review of only 38% of the state's 269 nursing homes during federal fiscal year 2024, a figure that had climbed to nearly 70% so far in FY2025, according to kentucky.com. As inspectors have returned to facilities, they have been finding problems such as rodents, resident abuse and neglect, medication errors, chronic understaffing and poor sanitation, the outlet reported. State officials credited funding for higher inspector salaries, recruitment and contracts with private inspectors for helping reduce the state's unaddressed complaint backlog from 3,028 two years before the July 2025 report to 695 as of that report.
The pattern at Spring House is not without precedent in Kentucky senior care. A Lexington-based nursing home chain previously agreed to close two Louisville facilities, displacing roughly 200 people, after state inspectors uncovered serious problems involving rats and mistreatment, the Winchester Sun reported in 2023. It remains unclear whether a sale of the Spring House building would change Canopy Senior Living's management or what protections residents would have during any ownership transition.
