Carrara
4501 TRADITION TRAIL, Plano, TX, 75093
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: Cantex Continuing Care
- Certified beds
- 112 · avg 84 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 40.9% — lower than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 53.8% — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 50.5% · National avg: 43.6% · per CMS Care Compare
- Administrators who left
- 1 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
Enforcement & Citations
- Fines (past 3 years)
- 2 fines · $18,226 total
- Infection control citations
- 3
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 307844
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 112 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 56 Medicare-only · 56 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- May 1, 2023
- Current license expires
- May 1, 2026
- Initial license date
- July 27, 2017
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Dallas County Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Plano Continuing Care Center Ltd Co
- Administrator
- John H Berg
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Carrara is a 112-bed nursing home in Plano, Texas, licensed to Dallas County Hospital District and managed by Plano Continuing Care Center Ltd Co. CMS rates it 4 stars overall, with a 4-star health inspection and a 5-star long-stay quality-of-care rating. Staffing is rated 2 stars — the main gap in an otherwise solid regulatory record. The facility is operating at about 75% of licensed capacity.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates staffing here at 2 stars. Each resident receives about 212 minutes of nursing care per day — roughly 29 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas, which sets its threshold at 241 minutes. Residents here also tend to need 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 number suggests. About 32% of Texas nursing homes share this staffing rating.
Roughly 4 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year. That puts total turnover below Texas's 25th-percentile cutoff — better than about three-quarters of nursing homes in the state.
One administrator has turned over in the past year. This is above the baseline CareWitness flags as unremarkable, though below the threshold of two or more departures that signals acute organizational instability.
Carrara received 2 CMS fines totaling $18,226 in the period on record. That total sits just below the Texas median of $20,699 among facilities that received any fines at all; about 30% of Texas nursing homes had zero fines in the same period.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Staffing plan for sicker residents
With a 2-star staffing rating and a resident mix that skews toward higher care needs, ask how the facility adjusts nurse assignments when a resident's condition changes.
RN coverage on nights and weekends
Weekend nursing hours here run at 3.09 hours per resident per day — below the weekday figure; ask what RN presence looks like overnight and on weekends specifically.
Recent administrator transition
One administrator left in the past year; ask who currently holds that role, how long they have been in place, and whether a permanent hire is settled.
Basis for the two CMS fines
Two fines totaling $18,226 appear in the CMS record; ask what the citations were for and what corrective steps the facility took.
Resident council access for families
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council; ask how family members raise concerns and how the facility responds to those outside the resident council structure.
Current bed availability and waitlist
The facility is running at roughly 75% of its 112 licensed beds; ask whether the unit relevant to your parent's care level has open beds or an active waitlist.
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.