Gulf Shores Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center
1301 S TERRELL ST, Falfurrias, TX, 78355
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 51 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 41.3% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 33.3% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 50.5% · National avg: 43.6% · per CMS Care Compare
- Administrators who left
- 0 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 308199
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 96 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 28 Medicare-only · 68 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- April 1, 2025
- Current license expires
- April 1, 2028
- Initial license date
- April 23, 1973
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- West Wharton County Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Nexion Health At Falfurrias, Inc
- Administrator
- Lydia Pickett
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Gulf Shores Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center is a 96-bed nursing home in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, licensed since 1973 and managed by Nexion Health. CMS rates it 4 stars overall, with a 4-star health inspection rating and a 5-star short-stay quality rating. Staffing comes in at 3 stars. The facility is operating at about 53% of licensed beds — roughly 51 residents on an average day — and carries no CMS fines.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates staffing here at 3 stars. Each resident receives about 202 minutes of nursing care per day — roughly 39 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas, and about 19% of Texas nursing homes share this rating. Residents here require more hands-on care than at a typical facility — less mobile or more medically complex on average — so the same hours stretch thinner than the raw minutes suggest.
About 4 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year — below Texas's 25th-percentile cutoff of 42%, meaning turnover here is better than roughly three-quarters of nursing homes in the state. RN turnover follows the same pattern: about 3 in 10 RNs left in the past year, also below that threshold.
This facility is filling about 53% of its licensed beds — roughly 51 residents against 96 available beds.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Staffing levels on weekends
Weekend nursing hours here run about 3.1 hours per resident per day — lower than the weekday figure; ask how staffing is scheduled Saturday and Sunday.
Why occupancy is this low
The facility averages about 51 residents in 96 licensed beds; ask whether that reflects a discharge program, a wait for referrals, or something else.
RN coverage per shift
Reported RN hours work out to about 25 minutes per resident per day; ask how many registered nurses are on the floor during a typical day shift and night shift.
Care plan review process
Quality measures rate 4 stars overall but staffing rates 3 stars; ask how often care plans are reviewed and who leads those meetings.
Nexion Health management role
Day-to-day management is handled by Nexion Health while the license is held by West Wharton County Hospital District; ask which entity sets staffing budgets and clinical policy.
Resident Council meeting frequency
A Resident Council is on record here but no Family Council; ask how often the Resident Council meets and how concerns raised there get resolved.
Where this information comes from
- License, capacity, ownership, administrator: Texas HHS 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.