Sterling Hills Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center
705 NE GEORGIA AVE, Sweetwater, TX, 79556
Federal Quality Data
Official records from CMS Care Compare — reported by the facility and audited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. We present them unmodified. Refreshed March 2026.
CMS Star Ratings
Facility & Staffing
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation · Chain: Nexion Health
- Certified beds
- 96 · avg 79 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 41.2% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 40% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 50.5% · National avg: 43.6% · per CMS Care Compare
- Administrators who left
- 1 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
Enforcement & Citations
- Infection control citations
- 1
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 308553
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 96 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 3 Medicare-only · 93 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- April 1, 2025
- Current license expires
- April 1, 2028
- Initial license date
- September 1, 1971
Texas HHSC licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Nexion Health Leasing, Inc (FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION)
- Operator / manager
- West Wharton County Hospital District
- Administrator
- Priscilla Barrera
Texas HHSC licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Federal ownership record
Chain affiliation
Part of the Nexion Health chain — 52 facilities across 3 states. Chain-wide average overall rating 2.3 / 5.
Disclosed owners (10 on record)
- Brian Lee
Operational/managerial Control · since 2022
- David Mak
Corporate Officer · 100% · since 2022
- Francis Kirley
Operational/managerial Control · since 2022
- Gina Luckett
W-2 Managing Employee · 100% · since 2022
- John r Fallon
Operational/managerial Control · since 2022
- John t Reid
Operational/managerial Control · since 2022
+ 4 additional owners on the federal record.
Recent change of ownership
April 2022 (4 years ago) · acquired from Sterling Hills Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center
Transaction type: Change of Ownership
Source: CMS Provider Enrollment data — SNF Enrollments + All Owners + Chain Performance Measures + Change of Ownership, as of April 2026.
Federal inspection record
Recent health-deficiency citations (most recent 8 of 16)
- D0805·Dec 12, 2024Complaint
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
- D0880·Dec 12, 2024
Infection Control Deficiencies
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- D0761·Dec 12, 2024
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
- E0585·Dec 12, 2024
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
- D0578·Dec 12, 2024
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- E0880·Oct 19, 2023
Infection Control Deficiencies
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- F0812·Oct 19, 2023
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- D0805·Oct 19, 2023
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
Fire-safety citations
1 Life-Safety-Code citation on file. Most recent: Dec 12, 2024. Fire-safety inspections cover building-level Life Safety Code compliance, separate from the resident-care health survey.
Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog — Health Deficiencies, Fire Safety Deficiencies, and Penalties datasets, snapshot Mar 1, 2026.
About this community
Sterling Hills Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center is a 96-bed nursing home in Sweetwater, Texas, licensed since 1971 and operated by Nexion Health. CMS rates it 4 stars overall and 4 stars on health inspections, though staffing comes in at 2 stars and quality-measure scores are low — 2 stars overall, with short-stay outcomes rated 1 star. The facility carries no CMS fines and runs at roughly 82% of licensed capacity.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates staffing here 2 stars. Each resident receives about 211 minutes of nursing care per day — roughly 30 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas, which sits at 241 minutes. Of that time, only 14 minutes comes from a registered nurse, well below the 37-minute Texas threshold for 4-star staffing. Residents here also require more hands-on care than at a typical facility — more dependent or medically complex on average — so those nursing hours stretch thinner than the raw numbers suggest.
About 4 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year, which puts turnover below Texas's 25th-percentile cutoff — better than roughly three-quarters of nursing homes in the state. A long-stay resident is less likely than at most facilities to cycle through multiple primary caregivers.
One administrator has turned over in the past year. That sits between typical and the high-turnover threshold, but it does mean the facility's current leadership team is relatively new.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Staffing gaps on nights and weekends
Weekend nursing hours average 2.87 hours per resident per day — ask how staffing levels and registered-nurse coverage differ from weekday daytime hours.
Short-stay outcomes rated 1 star
CMS rates short-stay quality measures at 1 star; ask which specific outcomes — such as rehospitalization rates or pain management — drive that score and what the facility is doing to address them.
New administrator's background
The current administrator joined within the past year; ask how long they have been in the role and what continuity exists among department heads and charge nurses.
Registered-nurse hours per day
Reported RN time runs about 14 minutes per resident per day; ask how many registered nurses are on shift at any given time and when an RN is physically present in the building.
Resident Council access and meeting schedule
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council; ask how family members can surface concerns and how often council feedback reaches facility leadership.
Where this information comes from
- License, capacity, ownership, administrator: Texas HHSC licensing registry, snapshot as of April 16, 2026.
- Star ratings, staffing, fines, deficiencies: CMS Care Compare, processed March 1, 2026.
- Summary, insights, and tour questions: Written from the state licensing and CMS records above, last updated April 19, 2026.
Read our methodology for how this information is collected and verified.