Epic Nursing & Rehabilitation: No RN on Staff - TX
Not the next day. Not the day after that. For 17 days spread across August and September 2025, the facility's own staffing sheets showed the same thing in the registered nurse column: zero staff scheduled, zero hours. The facility had 72 residents.
Inspectors arrived on September 3 and found the Daily Nurse Staffing Report posted on the wall. Both the day shift and the night shift, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., listed zero scheduled RN hours. The sheets for September 2 and September 4 showed the same.
The staffing coordinator confirmed it when inspectors interviewed her that afternoon. She had run the RN staffing report herself. There was no RN coverage for August 11 through 15, August 18 through 22, August 25 through 28, or September 1 and 2. The RN the facility relied on for that coverage had gone out on leave August 11. Nobody had been brought in to fill the gap.
What followed was a series of interviews in which nearly every manager at the facility said, in different words, that they hadn't known this was a problem.
The Director of Nursing told inspectors at 12:15 p.m. that she wasn't aware her own hours as DON couldn't count toward the facility's RN coverage requirement. She said she thought her hours, combined with RNs who worked weekends, would be enough. She acknowledged she was responsible for nurse staffing. She said she wasn't familiar with the rule that a DON's hours only satisfy the requirement when a facility's average daily census is 60 or fewer residents. Epic's census was 72.
The interim administrator, interviewed at 5:15 p.m., said she wasn't aware the facility needed RN coverage beyond what the DON provided. She said staffing was the DON's responsibility. She said she didn't know whether their census being over 60 changed anything.
Between those two interviews, inspectors emailed the administrator and asked for proof of eight hours of daily RN coverage for the prior seven days. She replied at 2:39 p.m. that the DON had been in the building from August 25 through August 29. Inspectors emailed back two minutes later asking whether any other RNs had been present during that time.
Her reply came eight minutes later. "Unfortunately, no."
The Regional Nurse Consultant, interviewed at 4:51 p.m., said the administrator was responsible for ensuring RN coverage. She said she had been aware the facility was using the DON's hours to meet the RN requirement but hadn't known that wasn't allowed. She also said she didn't know about the census threshold. She noted she had personally provided RN coverage on September 3 and 4 by being present in the building.
The facility's own written staffing policy, revised in August 2022, stated plainly that a registered nurse provides services at least eight hours every 24 hours, seven days a week, and that the director of nursing may serve as charge nurse only when average daily occupancy is 60 or fewer residents. The census at the time of inspection was 72.
Nobody at the facility, across five separate interviews, could point to a moment when anyone recognized the gap and tried to close it.
Inspectors classified the harm level as minimal, meaning no specific resident injury was documented as a result of the coverage lapse. But the 17 days without an RN on duty meant that whatever happened in those buildings, whether a resident's condition changed, whether a medication decision needed a clinical eye, whether someone fell or spiked a fever or needed an assessment, there was no registered nurse there to respond.
The RN who had been covering those hours went out on leave August 11. Nobody noticed, or nobody acted, for more than two weeks.
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Epic Nursing & Rehabilitation in Corsicana, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 4, 2025.
Inspectors arrived on September 3 and found the Daily Nurse Staffing Report posted on the wall.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.