Wharton Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
1220 SUNNY LANE, Wharton, TX, 77488
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
- Non profit - Corporation · Chain: Wellsential Health
- Certified beds
- 120 · avg 83 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 55.4% — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- RN turnover
- 63.6% — higher than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 50.5% · National avg: 43.6% · per CMS Care Compare
- Administrators who left
- 3 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
Enforcement & Citations
- Fines (past 3 years)
- 2 fines · $19,725 total
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 149277
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 120 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 6 Medicare-only · 114 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- March 1, 2024
- Current license expires
- March 1, 2027
- Initial license date
- September 1, 1971
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Citizens Medical Center County Of Victoria (COUNTY)
- Operator / manager
- Regency Ihs Of Wharton, Llc
- Administrator
- Armando Padron
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Wharton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a 120-bed nursing home in Wharton County, TX, licensed since 1971 and operating under a Wellsential Health management agreement. CMS rates it 3 stars overall, with 5 stars on quality measures but 1 star on staffing — the lowest tier. Three administrators have turned over in the past year. About 83 of 120 licensed beds are currently occupied.
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. Residents receive roughly 171 minutes of nursing care per day, about 70 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. Residents here also tend to need more hands-on care than the typical Texas nursing home — less mobile or more medically complex on average — which means those 171 minutes stretch thinner in practice than the number alone suggests.
Three administrators have left in the past year. Leadership turnover at that pace typically disrupts care coordination, staffing schedules, and how complaints are handled at the floor level.
Two CMS fines totaling $19,725 are on record — close to the Texas median of $20,699 for facilities that receive fines at all. About 30% of Texas nursing homes have received no fines.
The facility is running at roughly 69% of its 120 licensed beds — about 83 residents per day. That occupancy is below the typical range for nursing homes in the region.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Director of nursing stability
With three administrators departing in the past year, ask how long the current director of nursing has been in the role and whether that position has also turned over.
Daily staffing on evenings and weekends
Reported weekend nursing hours here run about 2.48 minutes below the already-low weekday figure — ask what the nurse-to-resident ratio looks like on nights and weekends specifically.
Why so many beds are empty
Only about 83 of 120 beds are currently filled — ask whether that reflects a recent discharge surge, staffing-driven admission holds, or another operational factor.
How the two CMS fines were resolved
Two fines totaling $19,725 are on file; ask what the cited deficiencies were and what specific changes were made in response.
Resident Council meeting access
The facility has a Resident Council but no Family Council — ask how families receive updates from council meetings and how they raise concerns directly.
Current management responsibilities
The licensed owner is Citizens Medical Center County of Victoria, but day-to-day operations run through Regency IHS of Wharton — ask which entity directs staffing decisions and handles grievances.
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.