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SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER is a government - hospital district facility in SAN ANTONIO, TX with 124 certified beds and a 3-star overall CMS rating. The facility has 50 deficiency records on file. Total penalties: $81K.

18514 SONTERRA PLACE, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78258

Phone: 2105454800

Overall Rating

3/5

Health Inspection

2/5

Staffing

2/5

Quality Measures

5/5

Long-Stay Quality

5/5

Facility Information

Provider Number
676158
Ownership
Government - Hospital district
Provider Type
Medicare and Medicaid
Beds
124
Residents
100
In Hospital
Yes
County
Bexar
Last Inspection
May 15, 2025

Staffing Data

RN Hours
0.33 (nat'l avg: 0.68)
LPN Hours
1.31
CNA Hours
2.08
Total Nursing Hours
3.72 (nat'l avg: 3.89)
PT Hours
0.21
Nursing Turnover
50.0%
RN Turnover
60.0%

What the CMS Record Reveals About SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER

SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER operates 124 certified beds in SAN ANTONIO, TX with approximately 100 residents currently in care, and carries a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. The overall score is a composite of three weighted sub-ratings published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: health inspection results (2★), staffing levels (2★), and quality measures (5★). Because CMS caps the overall score at the health-inspection tier and then adjusts up or down based on staffing and quality, the sub-scores often tell a sharper story than the headline star count alone — a 3-star facility with weak inspection history reads differently from one held back by thin staffing.

The inspection file contains 50 deficiency records from recent surveys, of which 5 reached the actual-harm or immediate-jeopardy threshold on the CMS scope-and-severity grid. On the enforcement side, CMS has assessed 3 penalties totaling $81K against this provider, a tangible indicator that regulators moved beyond citation into financial consequence. Staffing is reported at 3.72 total nursing hours per resident day (national average 3.89), with RN coverage at 0.33 per resident day — the single staffing metric most strongly tied to resident outcomes in peer-reviewed literature.

Classified as "Government - Hospital district" ownership and operating as a "Medicare and Medicaid" provider embedded within a hospital campus, SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER falls into a category where comparative context matters. National research consistently shows that ownership structure, staffing hours, and turnover are the three operational levers that correlate most strongly with resident outcomes — ratings and fines are lagging indicators of those upstream choices. Reported nursing turnover at this facility is 50.0%, within a range generally associated with stable care teams. For families evaluating this facility, the CMS record should be read alongside a site visit, direct conversation with current residents and their families, and review of the state health department's most recent inspection report — the star rating is a starting point, not a verdict. All data on this page is sourced from CMS Provider Data and the Nursing Home Compare program; always verify details directly with the facility or your state survey agency before making placement decisions.

Deficiency History (50 most recent)

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0610

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Category: Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0609

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Category: Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0880

Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

Category: Infection Control Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0761

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.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0757

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0700

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

G — Isolated - Actual harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0697

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0695

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0689

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0655

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0640

Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0585

Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

G — Isolated - Actual harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0578

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.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0558

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm May 15, 2025 Tag: 0550

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 13, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Apr 25, 2025 Tag: 0842

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: May 16, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Apr 25, 2025 Tag: 0657

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 30, 2025

J — Isolated - Jeopardy Mar 21, 2025 Tag: 0760

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 17, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Mar 21, 2025 Tag: 0609

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Category: Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Sep 14, 2024 Tag: 0761

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.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 15, 2024

J — Isolated - Jeopardy Aug 14, 2024 Tag: 0689

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Aug 15, 2024

J — Isolated - Jeopardy Aug 14, 2024 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Aug 15, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Jun 14, 2024 Tag: 0812

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Category: Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 15, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Jun 14, 2024 Tag: 0761

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.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 15, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Jun 14, 2024 Tag: 0732

Post nurse staffing information every day.

Category: Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies

Corrected: Jun 15, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0812

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Category: Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 26, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0727

Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

Category: Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 20, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0690

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 30, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0657

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 24, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 24, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Apr 19, 2024 Tag: 0641

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 24, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Mar 22, 2024 Tag: 0842

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 10, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Mar 22, 2024 Tag: 0761

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.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 10, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Mar 22, 2024 Tag: 0583

Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 10, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 1, 2023 Tag: 0755

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Dec 28, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 1, 2023 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Dec 28, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 31, 2023 Tag: 0842

Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 11, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 31, 2023 Tag: 0580

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 11, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0849

Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.

Category: Administration Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

F — Widespread - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0837

Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.

Category: Administration Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 17, 2023

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0812

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Category: Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0695

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0692

Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0610

Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

Category: Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0609

Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

Category: Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0580

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0578

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.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 24, 2023 Tag: 0550

Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Mar 24, 2023

Quality Measures

Measure Type Score Used in Rating
Percentage of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased Long Stay 10.6% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who lose too much weight Long Stay 0.9% No
Percentage of long-stay residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder Long Stay 0.0% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection Long Stay 0.0% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms Long Stay 0.0% No
Percentage of long-stay residents who were physically restrained Long Stay 0.0% No
Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury Long Stay 1.6% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine Long Stay 98.0% No
Percentage of short-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine Short Stay 98.1% No
Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication Short Stay 0.7% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to walk independently worsened Long Stay 9.3% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antianxiety or hypnotic medication Long Stay 11.3% No
Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine Long Stay 95.3% No
Percentage of short-stay residents who were assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine Short Stay 98.9% No
Percentage of long-stay residents with pressure ulcers Long Stay 2.4% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents with new or worsened bowel or bladder incontinence Long Stay 19.7% No
Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication Long Stay 12.1% Yes

Penalty History 3 penalties totaling $81K

Date Type Amount
Apr 25, 2025 Fine $17K
Mar 21, 2025 Fine $15K
Aug 14, 2024 Fine $49K
Aug 14, 2024 Payment Denial -

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the overall CMS rating for SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER?
SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER has an overall CMS rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This rating combines health inspection results (2★), staffing levels (2★), and quality measures (5★).
What are the staffing levels at SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER?
SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER reports 3.72 total nursing hours per resident day (national average: 3.89). RN hours are 0.33 per resident day (national average: 0.68). Nursing staff turnover is 50.0%.
How many beds does SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER have?
SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER has 124 certified beds with approximately 100 residents. The facility is located at 18514 SONTERRA PLACE, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78258.
Does SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER have any deficiencies on record?
Yes, SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER has 50 deficiencies on record from recent inspections. Of these, 5 are classified as causing actual harm or jeopardy.
Has SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER received any fines or penalties?
Yes, SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER has received 3 penalties totaling $81K.
Who owns SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER?
SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER is classified as "Government - Hospital district" ownership. The facility type is "Medicare and Medicaid" and is located within a hospital.
When was SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER last inspected?
The most recent health inspection for SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER was on May 15, 2025. The facility received a health inspection rating of 2 out of 5 stars.
What quality measures are tracked for SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER?
SONTERRA HEALTH CENTER is evaluated on 17 quality measures, of which 8 are used in the CMS star rating calculation. These include measures for both long-stay and short-stay residents covering areas like infections, falls, pressure ulcers, and medication use.

Data Sources

Data source: CMS Nursing Home Compare. Ratings, staffing, deficiency, quality measure, and penalty data are from CMS Provider Data. For informational purposes only. Always verify information directly with the facility or your state health department.

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