Hillside Medical Lodge
300 S HIGHWAY 36 BYP N, Gatesville, TX, 76528
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: Coryell County Memorial Hospital Authority
- Certified beds
- 128 · avg 101 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 45.8% — 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
- 0 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 312662
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 128 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 11 Medicare-only · 117 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- August 1, 2025
- Current license expires
- August 1, 2028
- Initial license date
- June 15, 1976
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Coryell County Memorial Hospital Authority (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Uptown Fs Llc
- Administrator
- Heidi Wefing
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Hillside Medical Lodge is a 128-bed nursing home in Gatesville, Texas, licensed since 1976 and currently operating at about 79% of capacity. CMS rates it 2 stars overall. The staffing rating is 1 star — the lowest tier — and the quality-of-care measures rate 2 stars. Health inspections come in at 3 stars. The license is active through August 2028.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates staffing here at 1 star. Each resident receives about 205 minutes of nursing care per day — roughly 36 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas, where the threshold is 241 minutes. About 38% of Texas nursing homes share this 1-star staffing rating. Of those 205 daily minutes, only 14 come from a registered nurse; the Texas 4-star threshold for RN time alone is 37 minutes. Residents here tend to need more hands-on help than at a typical facility — more dependent or medically complex on average — so those nursing hours stretch thinner than the raw numbers already suggest.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Staffing on nights and weekends
Weekend nursing hours average 2.9 hours per resident per day — ask how many nurses and aides are on the floor during overnight and weekend shifts specifically.
RN coverage during the day
CMS records show about 14 minutes of registered-nurse time per resident per day; ask which hours an RN is physically present in the building.
Management company's role
The licensed owner is Coryell County Memorial Hospital Authority, but day-to-day management is listed under Uptown Fs LLC — ask what decisions each entity controls and who to contact with care concerns.
How care plans are reviewed
Quality-of-care measures rate 2 stars despite a 3-star health inspection — ask how frequently care plans are updated and who leads those reviews.
Resident Council frequency and access
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council — ask how often the Resident Council meets and how families receive information about concerns raised there.
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.