For profit - Limited Liability company · 98 certified beds · CMS number 675134
Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing, Cuero, TX
CMS records 27 health deficiencies at Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing in Cuero, Texas in its last 3 inspection cycles; the Texas median is 25. Its most recent standard inspection was on Jul 18, 2025. The highest severity cited is L (immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety). 1 citation was at the immediate jeopardy level. CMS lists no fines or payment denials in the last three years.
- 27deficiencies, 3 cycles (TX median 25)
- 8in the latest cycle (TX median 8)
- Lhighest severity · Immediate jeopardy
- $0fines, last 3 years
- 4CMS overall rating (of 5)
Inspections and deficiencies
CMS findings for Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing as of Sep 1, 2026, grouped by inspection cycle (3 cycles); each is a requirement inspectors found not met, and Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing may since have corrected or disputed it. Severity letters · Inspection cycles · Care Compare
Most recent cycle (8 deficiencies)
Standard inspection Jul 18, 2025. CMS counts 8 health deficiencies and 4 fire safety deficiencies in this cycle.
Jul 18, 2025 · Standard + complaint inspection
8 deficiencies, highest D
F912 · Minimum bedroom size
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
- Severity
- C No actual harm, potential for minimal harm, widespread
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F880 · Infection prevention and control program
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F842 · Complete, confidential medical records
Requirement cited (CMS): Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F808 · Physician-ordered therapeutic diets
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F761 · Drug labeling and secure storage
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F726 · Competent nurses and nurse aides
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F690 · Bladder, bowel, and catheter care
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
F583 · Personal privacy and confidential records
Requirement cited (CMS): Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Aug 8, 2025
Previous cycle: 12 deficiencies (standard inspection Jun 14, 2024)
Standard inspection Jun 14, 2024. CMS counts 12 health deficiencies and 2 fire safety deficiencies in this cycle.
May 24, 2025 · Complaint inspection
1 deficiency, highest L
F812 · Food safety and sanitation
Requirement cited (CMS): Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Severity
- L Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety, widespread
- Status
- Correction date May 25, 2025
Jun 14, 2024 · Standard inspection
11 deficiencies, highest E
F912 · Minimum bedroom size
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
- Severity
- C No actual harm, potential for minimal harm, widespread
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F908 · Equipment kept in safe working order
Requirement cited (CMS): Keep all essential equipment working safely.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F880 · Infection prevention and control program
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F761 · Drug labeling and secure storage
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F726 · Competent nurses and nurse aides
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F695 · Respiratory and oxygen care
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F693 · Feeding tube use and care
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F690 · Bladder, bowel, and catheter care
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F657 · Care plan timing and team review
Requirement cited (CMS): Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F656 · Comprehensive person-centered care plan
Requirement cited (CMS): Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
F641 · Accurate resident assessments
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Severity
- E No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, pattern
- Status
- Correction date Jul 12, 2024
Earlier cycle: 7 deficiencies (standard inspection Apr 14, 2023)
Standard inspection Apr 14, 2023. CMS counts 7 health deficiencies and 3 fire safety deficiencies in this cycle.
Jan 18, 2024 · Complaint inspection
1 deficiency, highest E
F551 · Role of the resident's representative
Requirement cited (CMS): Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
- Severity
- E No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, pattern
- Status
- Correction date Mar 7, 2024
Apr 14, 2023 · Standard inspection
6 deficiencies, highest D
F912 · Minimum bedroom size
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
- Severity
- C No actual harm, potential for minimal harm, widespread
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
F690 · Bladder, bowel, and catheter care
Requirement cited (CMS): Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
F657 · Care plan timing and team review
Requirement cited (CMS): Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
F656 · Comprehensive person-centered care plan
Requirement cited (CMS): Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
F641 · Accurate resident assessments
Requirement cited (CMS): Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
F578 · Refusing treatment and advance directives
Requirement cited (CMS): Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- Severity
- D No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated
- Status
- Correction date May 19, 2023
Tags cited in more than one inspection
8 tags cited on more than one inspection date at Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing; each date counts once and does not mean the same incident. PNC = past non-compliance.
| Tag | Inspections | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| F690 Bladder, bowel, and catheter care | 3 | Jul 18, 2025; Jun 14, 2024; Apr 14, 2023 |
| F912 Minimum bedroom size | 3 | Jul 18, 2025; Jun 14, 2024; Apr 14, 2023 |
| F641 Accurate resident assessments | 2 | Jun 14, 2024; Apr 14, 2023 |
| F656 Comprehensive person-centered care plan | 2 | Jun 14, 2024; Apr 14, 2023 |
| F657 Care plan timing and team review | 2 | Jun 14, 2024; Apr 14, 2023 |
| F726 Competent nurses and nurse aides | 2 | Jul 18, 2025; Jun 14, 2024 |
| F761 Drug labeling and secure storage | 2 | Jul 18, 2025; Jun 14, 2024 |
| F880 Infection prevention and control program | 2 | Jul 18, 2025; Jun 14, 2024 |
Fines and payment denials
CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this nursing home in the last three years.
Staffing and CMS ratings
- Total nurse staff hours per resident per day
- 4.06 h (above the Texas median of 3.27 h)
- RN hours per resident per day
- 0.28 h (below the Texas median of 0.38 h)
- Weekend nurse staff hours per resident per day
- 3.44 h
- Nursing staff turnover
- 36.6% (Texas median 52.1%)
- Administrators who left
- 0
- CMS overall rating
- 4 of 5
- Health inspection rating
- 3 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 3 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 5 of 5
CMS figures for Whispering Oaks Rehab & Nursing, copied as published; Texas medians are ours.
Facility details
- Address
- 105 Hospital Dr, Cuero, TX 77954
- Phone
- (361) 275-3421
- County
- De Witt
- Accepts
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain (CMS)
- Advanced Healthcare Solutions
- Certified beds
- 98
- Average residents per day
- 43.7
- In Medicare/Medicaid since
- Apr 7, 1993
- Inside a hospital
- No
- Continuing care retirement community
- No
- Resident and family council
- Resident
- Sprinklers in all required areas
- Yes
Questions to ask on a visit
Based on the tags cited most often here.
- How does the home support residents who need help with toileting or incontinence? (F690, cited 3 times)
- How large are the shared and private rooms, and how many residents share a room? (F912, cited 3 times)
- How does the home check that resident assessments match what staff actually observe? (F641, cited 2 times)
- How are a resident's goals and preferences written into the care plan? (F656, cited 2 times)
Other nursing homes in Cuero and the same chain
- Cuero Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Cuero · 23 deficiencies - Greenville Health & Rehabilitation Center
Greenville · 90 deficiencies - El Paso Health & Rehabilitation Center
El Paso · 55 deficiencies - Sulphur Springs Health and Rehabilitation
Sulphur Springs · 52 deficiencies - Winfield Rehab & Nursing
Crockett · 48 deficiencies
Source
CMS Provider Data Catalog: Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, Penalties, Survey Summary. Processed by CMS Sep 1, 2026; next update Oct 28, 2026.