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Executive findings

The federal nursing-home dataset listed 10 Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Ellis County as of June–July 2026:

• Seven
  had at least one recent serious deficiency.
• All
  10 had received an infection-related deficiency within the reporting
  period.
• Federal
  penalties totaled approximately $532,776.
• Two
  facilities received suspensions or denials of Medicare/Medicaid payments.
• Several
  facilities were cited at immediate-jeopardy level, meaning
  regulators determined that noncompliance had caused—or was likely to
  cause—serious injury, harm, impairment, or death.

The amounts below reconcile to the county total, subject to minor rounding in CMS and ProPublica displays. CMS publicly displays penalties from approximately the latest three years, not every fine ever imposed. Inspection histories likewise generally show the last three standard surveys and about 36 months of complaint surveys. ProPublica’s CMS-derived Ellis County summary.

Important distinction: a regulatory deficiency is a substantiated failure to meet a federal care requirement. It does not necessarily mean that an owner or employee was criminally convicted. “Potential harm,” “actual harm,” and “immediate jeopardy” are different regulatory findings.

Facility-by-facility findings

The most serious documented cases

1. Ennis Care Center: medication errors and inadequate supervision

Ennis Care Center accounts for the largest portion of recent county penalties.

On August 11, 2023, inspectors cited:

• Failure
  to provide adequate pharmaceutical services.
• Failure
  to keep residents free from significant medication errors.
• Both
  findings were rated K — immediate jeopardy affecting some residents.
• CMS
  imposed a $150,309 fine.

On February 1, 2024, inspectors found:

• Immediate-jeopardy
  failure to keep the facility free from accident hazards and provide
  adequate supervision.
• Failure
  to maintain required RN coverage.
• Infection-control,
  food-service, environmental and pest-control violations.
• CMS
  imposed $30,684 and suspended payments.

A later complaint inspection resulted in a $6,227 fine, and a November 2025 complaint produced another immediate-jeopardy accident/supervision finding. The facility was also cited in March 2025 for failing to protect a resident from abuse, neglect, physical punishment or other mistreatment. Ennis Care Center inspection and ownership record.

2. Focused Care of Waxahachie: accident hazards and supervision

Recent penalties include:

• July
  17, 2023 — $151,778 and a payment suspension.
• March
  27, 2024 — $8,161.
• A
  subsequent $19,120 fine.

The inspection history contains immediate-jeopardy and actual-harm findings involving accident hazards and inadequate supervision, along with significant medication errors, unsafe conditions and infection-control failures. Focused Care of Waxahachie record.

3. Pleasant Manor: protection from abuse and failure to manage pain

A February 14, 2024 complaint inspection found:

• Failure
  to protect a resident from physical, mental or sexual abuse, punishment,
  neglect or exploitation.
• Failure
  to provide safe and appropriate pain management.
• Both
  were rated J — immediate jeopardy affecting at least one resident.
• CMS
  imposed $14,996.

A March 2026 survey added an additional $14,015 fine and cited unnecessary psychotropic-medication/restraint risk, failure to provide needed daily-care assistance, inadequate supervision and failure to follow treatment orders. Pleasant Manor inspection and ownership record.

4. Midlothian Healthcare Center: failure to protect a resident

A complaint inspection dated August 28, 2023 included:

• An
  immediate-jeopardy finding under the federal
  protection-from-abuse-and-neglect requirement.
• Infection-control
  violations.
• A $42,091
  fine.

Three additional penalties—$4,194, $2,098 and $2,447—brought the displayed total to $50,830. Midlothian Healthcare Center record.

5. Legend Oaks–Waxahachie: supervision and actual harm

The inspection history includes:

• Immediate-jeopardy
  failure to prevent accidents or adequately supervise residents.
• Actual-harm
  failure to provide treatment consistent with medical orders and resident
  needs.
• Pressure-ulcer
  care, medication storage, daily-living assistance and infection-control
  failures.

The latest CMS-derived data displays three penalties totaling $41,215: $13,898, $15,851 and $11,466. Older records show much larger historical penalties, but those fall outside the current three-year CMS penalty window. Legend Oaks–Waxahachie record.

Ownership requires careful interpretation

Several Ellis County facilities have a public hospital authority or hospital district listed as the 100% direct owner, while a private company exercises day-to-day managerial control. Therefore, the CMS “direct owner” is not always the company whose brand appears on the building.

Examples:

• Eastland
  Memorial Hospital District is listed as direct owner of several
  Ensign-affiliated facilities.
• Fannin
  County Hospital Authority is listed as direct owner of Ennis Care Center,
  while Eduro-affiliated entities manage it.
• Coryell
  County Memorial Hospital Authority owns Bluebonnet Rehab at Ennis, while
  Ennis SNF LLC operates it.
• Focused
  Care’s record emphasizes managerial-control entities rather than a
  conventional direct owner.

A finding against a nursing home during one operating period should not automatically be attributed to a later owner or manager after a change of control.

What is—and is not—included

This report covers publicly searchable:

• CMS
  standard, complaint and infection-control inspections.
• Federal
  civil monetary penalties and payment suspensions.
• CMS
  ownership and managerial-control disclosures.
• The
  Texas OIG abuse/neglect/exploitation inspection identified for Midtowne
  Meadows.
• Current
  and former facility names where readily identifiable.

It cannot capture genuinely “all” incidents because the following are commonly confidential, sealed, expunged or unavailable in searchable form:

• Unsubstantiated
  complaints.
• HIPAA-protected
  resident records.
• Adult
  Protective Services investigative files.
• Confidential
  settlements and arbitration awards.
• Police
  reports not placed online.
• State
  enforcement records available only through a Texas Public Information Act
  request.
• Older
  CMS inspection and penalty records removed from the rolling federal
  display.

For a complete historical investigation, records should also be requested from Texas HHSC, Texas OIG, the Ellis County District Clerk, municipal police departments, the Texas Long-Term Care Ombudsman and CMS through public-information or FOIA requests.