Buena Vida Nursing & Rehab Odessa
3800 ENGLEWOOD LANE, Odessa, TX, 79762
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: Creative Solutions In Healthcare
- Certified beds
- 117 · avg 83 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 42.9% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 50% — near the Texas averageTexas 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 · $8,724 total
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 311674
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 117 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 8 Medicare-only · 109 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- July 1, 2023
- Current license expires
- July 1, 2026
- Initial license date
- September 1, 1971
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- West Wharton County Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Odessa I Enterprises, Llc
- Administrator
- Silvia Casas
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Buena Vida Nursing & Rehab Odessa is a 117-bed Medicare/Medicaid nursing home in Odessa, Texas, licensed since 1971 and operated by Odessa I Enterprises under a hospital district licensee. CMS rates it 1 star overall — the lowest tier — with a 1-star staffing rating and a 1-star short-stay quality rating, though long-stay quality rates 5 stars. About 83 of its 117 beds are occupied on an average day. The facility is part of the Creative Solutions In Healthcare chain.
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 — the bottom tier, shared by about 38% of Texas nursing homes. Each resident receives roughly 176 minutes of total nursing care per day, about 65 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. Residents here need more hands-on care than at a typical facility — more dependent or medically complex on average — so those 176 minutes stretch thinner than the raw number suggests. RN coverage specifically runs to about 19 minutes per resident per day, compared to 37 minutes at the 4-star threshold in Texas.
The facility carries one CMS fine totaling $8,724. That is below the Texas median of $20,699 for facilities that have any fines at all; about 30% of Texas nursing homes have received no fines.
Quality measure ratings split sharply. Long-stay residents — people living here permanently or for many months — rate 5 stars on quality outcomes. Short-stay residents — typically people here for rehabilitation after a hospital stay — rate 1 star. Those two populations have different care needs, and the gap between their ratings is large.
About 83 of the facility's 117 licensed beds are occupied on an average day, a rate of roughly 71%. This is below typical occupancy for nursing homes in Texas and may reflect local market conditions, staffing constraints, or admissions patterns.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Short-stay quality rating of 1
CMS rates short-stay outcomes here at 1 star — ask which specific quality measures drove that rating and what changes have been made.
Daily nursing minutes per resident
With 176 total nursing minutes per resident per day, ask how staffing is scheduled on evenings, weekends, and holidays when call-outs are most common.
RN coverage on each shift
Reported RN hours average about 19 minutes per resident daily — ask whether a registered nurse is physically present on every shift, or only on call.
Occupancy at 71 percent
Only about 83 of 117 beds are filled on a typical day — ask whether lower census affects staffing levels or which services the facility is actively admitting for.
Management company and licensee relationship
The licensed owner is West Wharton County Hospital District, but day-to-day operations run through Odessa I Enterprises — ask how decisions about staffing and care budgets are made between the two entities.
Long-stay 5-star rating and short-stay gap
Long-stay quality rates 5 stars while short-stay rates 1 — ask what the facility does differently for permanent residents versus those here for rehabilitation.
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.