Brush Country Nursing: Missing Privacy Curtains - TX
The inspection, completed October 4, 2025, stemmed from a complaint. What investigators found in that room raised a question the facility's own administrator could not answer: who decided two residents would live without the curtains that separate their beds from each other and from anyone who walks through the door?
The administrator told inspectors she had just learned from a nursing assistant, identified in the report as CNA B, that the curtains were missing. She said she had heard at some earlier point that Residents 2 and 3, the two people living in that room, had requested no curtains. But when she went looking for documentation of that request, she found nothing. No care plan entry. No resident preference noted in their clinical records. Nothing.
"She had been looking through their clinical records and there was no evidence," the inspection report states.
The administrator told inspectors she would contact the residents' responsible parties to find out whether someone had, in fact, said no curtains. She acknowledged the facility was required to have a care plan in place if residents had declined them. Then she acknowledged something more basic: "According to the regulation, privacy curtains are needed in every room."
The director of nursing, interviewed the same day, said she also had no idea the curtains were missing until it was brought to her attention during the inspection. She told investigators she had not looked into why they were absent. Her explanation of how the system was supposed to work made the gap more striking, not less. If residents didn't want the curtains pulled, she said, that preference would be documented in a care plan. If residents wanted to decline the curtains entirely, that too would be care planned.
Neither had happened.
The facility's own privacy policy, reviewed by inspectors, states that each resident shall be cared for in a manner that promotes and enhances quality of life, dignity, respect and individuality. Staff, the policy says, shall promote, maintain and protect resident privacy during assistance with personal care and during treatment procedures.
The policy is undated.
What that means in practice is that two residents shared a room with no mechanism to create visual separation between them, no way to screen one person from the other during dressing, bathing assistance, wound care, or any other moment when a curtain would ordinarily close. Whether staff ever attempted to improvise some other form of privacy, the report does not say. Whether the residents themselves had ever asked where the curtains went, the report does not say.
The deficiency was cited at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting few residents. That language is the lowest tier of harm in the federal inspection framework. It does not mean nothing happened. It means inspectors determined the situation had not yet produced documented injury, though the conditions existed for it.
What the record reflects is a room that was missing something required, two residents whose preferences were invoked to explain the absence, and no paperwork showing those residents had ever actually expressed those preferences. The administrator's account moved through several positions in the span of a single interview: she had heard residents didn't want curtains, she could find no evidence of that, she would call their families, and the curtains were required regardless.
The director of nursing's account was simpler. She didn't know. Nobody had told her.
Brush Country Nursing and Rehabilitation is located at 6500 Brush Country Road in Austin. The complaint inspection was completed October 4, 2025. At the time investigators finished their review, the question of who removed the curtains from that room, and when, and on whose authority, remained unanswered.
Residents 2 and 3 were still living there.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Brush Country Nursing and Rehabilitation from 2025-10-04 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Brush Country Nursing and Rehabilitation in Austin, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on October 4, 2025.
The inspection, completed October 4, 2025, stemmed from a complaint.
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.