Live Oak Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
2951 HWY 281, George West, TX, 78022
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 - Individual · Chain: Wellsential Health
- Certified beds
- 96 · avg 78 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 30.2% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 16.7% — 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
Enforcement & Citations
- Fines (past 3 years)
- 1 fine · $56,980 total
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 143006
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 96 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 96 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- July 24, 2024
- Current license expires
- July 24, 2027
- Initial license date
- January 14, 1993
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Uvalde County Hospital Authority (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Regency Ihs Of Rockport, Llc
- Administrator
- Patrick Lawrence
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Live Oak Nursing And Rehabilitation Center is a 96-bed nursing home in George West, Texas, licensed for Medicare and Medicaid. CMS rates it 2 stars overall, with a 2-star health inspection rating and a 3-star staffing rating. One CMS fine totaling $56,980 has been assessed. Long-stay quality measures rate 5 stars, while staffing hours per resident run below the 4-star threshold for Texas.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates this facility 3 stars on staffing — placing it in roughly the middle fifth of Texas nursing homes on that measure. Each resident receives about 190 minutes of nursing care per day, approximately 51 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. Residents here require more hands-on care than at a typical facility — more dependent or medically complex on average — so the same staffing hours stretch thinner than the raw minutes suggest.
About 3 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year — an exceptionally low rate, better than roughly three-quarters of nursing homes in Texas. RN turnover follows the same pattern: roughly 2 in 10 registered nurses left over the same period, also below the state's 25th-percentile cutoff. A long-stay resident here is less likely to cycle through multiple primary caregivers than at most Texas facilities.
One CMS fine totaling $56,980 has been assessed. About 30% of Texas nursing homes have had no fines at all; $56,980 is also nearly three times the Texas median fine amount of $20,699. The 2-star health inspection rating reflects the underlying inspection record that generated this fine.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
What drove the $56,980 fine
Ask what the CMS citation was for and what specific changes were made in response, since the fine is nearly three times the Texas median.
Staffing on nights and weekends
Reported weekend nursing hours run lower than weekday figures — ask how many nurses and aides are on the floor during nights and weekends specifically.
How care plans address higher-need residents
Residents here require more hands-on care than at a typical facility on average; ask how care plans are reviewed and updated as a resident's needs change.
Resident Council meeting frequency
A Resident Council is listed but no Family Council — ask how often the Resident Council meets and how family members can raise concerns outside of that channel.
Management company's day-to-day role
The facility is licensed under Uvalde County Hospital Authority but managed by Regency IHS of Rockport — ask which entity sets staffing levels and handles complaint resolution.
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.