Prairie House Living Center
1301 MESA DR, Plainview, TX, 79072
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
- Government - Hospital district · Chain: Advanced Healthcare Solutions
- Certified beds
- 121 · avg 88 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 27.9% — 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
- 147911
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 121 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 5 Medicare-only · 116 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- September 1, 2023
- Current license expires
- September 1, 2026
- Initial license date
- December 21, 1993
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Childress County Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Advanced Hcs
- Administrator
- Georgiana F Forman-Roller
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Prairie House Living Center is a 121-bed nursing home in Plainview, Texas, licensed through September 2026 and managed by Advanced Healthcare Solutions under Childress County Hospital District. CMS rates it 5 stars overall, with a 5-star quality-of-care rating and a 4-star health inspection rating. Staffing comes in at 3 stars, and the facility is running at roughly 73% of licensed capacity — about 88 residents per day.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates Prairie House 3 stars on staffing. Each resident receives about 183 minutes of nursing care per day — roughly 58 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. Residents here tend to need more hands-on care than at a typical facility — more dependent or harder to care for on average — so the same hours stretch thinner than the raw number suggests.
Nursing staff turnover tells a different story. About 3 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year — below Texas's 25th-percentile cutoff, meaning roughly three-quarters of nursing homes in the state had higher turnover. RN turnover is also low by state standards. A long-stay resident is less likely to cycle through multiple primary caregivers here than at most Texas facilities.
The facility is operating at roughly 73% of its 121 licensed beds — about 88 residents on a typical day. That level of vacancy, alongside the staffing and quality signals, is a factual starting point for questions about the facility's current direction.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Staffing hours on weekends
Weekend nursing hours average 2.69 hours per resident per day here — ask how staffing levels on Saturdays and Sundays compare to weekday coverage.
RN presence on each shift
Reported RN hours work out to about 21 minutes per resident per day; ask whether a registered nurse is on-site or on-call during nights and weekends.
Why occupancy is at 73%
The facility has roughly 33 unfilled beds; ask whether that reflects recent admissions slowdowns, staffing limits, or a planned reduction in census.
How care plans account for resident needs
Residents here tend to need more hands-on care than at a typical facility — ask how care plans are reviewed and updated as needs change.
Resident Council structure and meeting frequency
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council; ask how often the council meets and how family members can raise concerns if they can't attend.
Management company's role day to day
Advanced Healthcare Solutions manages the facility on behalf of Childress County Hospital District; ask which entity sets staffing budgets and care policies.
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.