William R Courtney Texas State Veterans Home
1424 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LANE, Temple, TX, 76504
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 Abuse Flag
CMS has flagged this facility for a substantiated finding of resident abuse, neglect, or exploitation in its current or recent inspection cycle. Ask the facility for the specific citation and corrective-action plan during your visit, and consider contacting your state's long-term care ombudsman for context.
Source: CMS Care Compare.
CMS Star Ratings
Facility & Staffing
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company · Chain: Texvet
- Certified beds
- 160 · avg 156 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 57.7% — higher than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 57.9% — higher 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)
- 3 fines · $61,536 total
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 149813
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 160 beds
- Memory-care capacity
- 32 beds · state-certified
- Bed type breakdown
- 20 Medicare-only · 140 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- December 21, 2023
- Current license expires
- December 21, 2026
- Initial license date
- September 1, 2001
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- State Of Texas Veterans Land Board (STATE)
- Administrator
- Timothy White
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
William R Courtney Texas State Veterans Home is a 160-bed nursing facility in Temple operated by the Texas Veterans Land Board, serving veterans with Medicare and Medicaid coverage. CMS rates it 2 stars overall — with 1-star ratings on both health inspections and staffing — and has substantiated findings of resident abuse or neglect within the past 36 months. Quality-of-care outcome measures rate 5 stars. The facility holds a state memory-care certification (32 beds, valid through February 2029) and is operating at 98% 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 1 star — the lowest tier, shared by about 38% of Texas nursing homes. Each resident receives roughly 130 minutes of total nursing care per day, about 111 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. RN coverage runs to about 15 minutes per resident per day. Residents here also require more hands-on care than at a typical facility — more dependent or medically complex on average — so those nursing minutes stretch thinner than the raw numbers suggest.
CMS has substantiated findings of resident abuse or neglect at this facility within the past 36 months. That finding appears on the facility's CMS Care Compare profile and is distinct from unconfirmed complaints.
Three CMS fines totaling $61,536 have been assessed. The state median for fines among Texas nursing homes that receive any is $20,699; about 30% of Texas nursing homes have no fines at all.
The facility is operating at 98% of its 160 licensed beds — effectively full. A waitlist is likely.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Substantiated abuse findings
CMS has substantiated abuse or neglect findings here in the past 36 months — ask what happened, what changed, and how incidents are reported and investigated today.
Staffing levels day to day
Reported nursing hours run to about 130 minutes per resident per day; ask what staffing looks like on evenings, weekends, and when call-outs occur.
Memory-care unit access
The facility holds a state memory-care certification for 32 beds — ask about current availability, the admission process, and how the unit is staffed relative to the rest of the building.
Waitlist and admission timeline
At 98% occupancy across 160 beds, ask whether there is a current waitlist and what the typical wait time has been over the past six months.
Three CMS fines since 2023
Three fines totaling $61,536 have been levied — ask which deficiencies triggered them and what corrective steps the facility completed.
Veterans-only admission criteria
This is a state veterans home operated by the Texas Veterans Land Board — ask which veteran eligibility categories qualify and whether a VA referral or documentation is required.
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.