St Anthony'S Care Center
7501 BAGBY AVE, Waco, TX, 76712
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
- Certified beds
- 120 · avg 108 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 69.3% — higher 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
Enforcement & Citations
- Fines (past 3 years)
- 1 fine · $3,276 total
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 312670
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 120 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 42 Medicare-only · 78 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- October 1, 2025
- Current license expires
- October 1, 2026
- Initial license date
- April 23, 2019
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- South Limestone Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- St Anthony'S Care Center, Llc
- Administrator
- Ms. Rita S Love
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
St. Anthony's Care Center is a 120-bed nursing home in Waco, McLennan County, accepting Medicare and Medicaid. CMS rates it 4 stars overall, with 4 stars on health inspections. Staffing earns 3 stars and quality-of-care outcomes — particularly for short-stay residents — rate lower, at 1 star. Licensed through October 2026, the facility is operating at roughly 90% of capacity with no current abuse or safety flags.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates staffing here at 3 stars — placing this facility among about 19% of Texas nursing homes at that tier. Each resident receives about 238 minutes of nursing care per day, just 3 minutes below the threshold typical of 4-star-staffing facilities in Texas. Staff hours per resident exceed what the resident mix would normally require, meaning the raw minutes carry more weight than they would at a facility with lighter-care residents.
Roughly 7 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year. That rate sits above the 75th percentile for Texas nursing homes, meaning turnover here is higher than at least three-quarters of facilities in the state. A long-stay resident will likely go through two or three primary caregivers over that period. RN turnover, by contrast, is low — below the state's 25th-percentile cutoff, meaning the registered nurse layer is more stable than the broader nursing staff picture suggests.
CMS issued 1 fine totaling $3,276 in the period reflected in this record. The state median for facilities that receive any fine at all is $20,699, and about 30% of Texas nursing homes have no fines. The dollar amount here is well below that median.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Short-stay outcomes rating
CMS rates short-stay quality outcomes at 1 star — ask which specific measures drive that rating and what the facility is doing to address them.
Nursing staff turnover by unit
With roughly 7 in 10 nursing staff leaving annually, ask whether turnover is concentrated in specific wings or shifts, and how care continuity is maintained for long-stay residents.
Resident Council participation
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council — ask how families are formally notified of concerns raised by residents and how those concerns are resolved.
Weekend staffing levels
Reported weekend nursing hours run below the weekday average; ask what the actual nurse-to-resident ratio looks like on Saturdays and Sundays.
Management company responsibilities
The facility is licensed to South Limestone Hospital District but managed by St. Anthony's Care Center, LLC — ask which entity sets staffing budgets and handles day-to-day care decisions.
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.